Psalm 104:24

• §295Paragraph 4 · The CreatorRead at vatican.va

  “In wisdom you have made them all"; and "The LORD is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made."” — Catechism footnote: Pss 104:24; 145:9.

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus VI.25Book VI

  “There go the ships; small animals with great; there is this dragon, which Thou hast formed to play therein.”” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. civ. 24–26.

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• Origen, De Principiis I.2Book I

  “Let him who is inclined to entertain this suspicion hear the undoubted declaration of Scripture pronouncing, “In wisdom hast Thou made them all,” and the teaching of the Gospel, that “by Him were all things made, and without Him nothing was made;” and let him understand from this that the title of…” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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• Origen, De Principiis II.9Book II

  “…with God: all things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made;” and as in the Psalm also it is written, “In wisdom hast Thou made them all;”—seeing, then, Christ is, as it were, the Word and Wisdom, and so also the Righteousness, it will undoubtedly follow that those things which were created in the…” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians II.6Discourse II

  “This too the Spirit has declared in the Psalms with a most apposite distinction, ‘the Word of the Lord is true, and all His works are faithful;’ as in another Psalm too He says, ‘O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! in Wisdom hast Thou made them all.’” — editor's note: Ib. civ. 24.

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Jerome

• Jerome, Against the Pelagians Book 1

  “If you look for all virtues in each individual, you do away with the distinctions of things, and the difference of graces, and the variety of the work of the Creator, whose prophet cries aloud in the sacred song: “In wisdom hast thou made them all.”” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XI.9Book XI

  “I will with confidence cry out from Thy oracle, How wonderful are Thy works, O Lord, in Wisdom hast Thou made them all.” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XII.19Book XII

  “For it is true, O Lord, that Thou hast made heaven and earth; it is also true, that the Beginning is Thy Wisdom, in Which Thou hast made all things.” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24. See p. 297 note 1, above.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 104

  ““O Lord, how great are made Thy works!” (ver. 24).” — the author cites it

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 136

  “…or that He in His understanding or intelligence, that is, in His wisdom made the heavens (as it is elsewhere written, “in wisdom hast Thou made them all”), implying thereby the only-begotten Word, may be a question.” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XI.32Book XI

  “For having said “In the Beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” meaning that the Father made them in the Son (as the psalm testifies where it says, “How manifold are Thy works, O Lord! in Wisdom hast Thou made them all”), a little afterwards mention is fitly made of the Holy Spirit also.” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 1

  “For He is the Wisdom of God, and it is said in the Psalm, “In Wisdom hast Thou made all things.”” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 37

  “So were all things that are made with the Word of God; because God made all things in wisdom, and all that He made were known to Him: for He did not learn because He made, but made because He knew.” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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Gregory of Nyssa

• Gregory of Nyssa, On Infants' Early Deaths

  “A blind unmeaning occurrence can never be the work of God; for it is the property of God, as the Scripture says, to “make all things in wisdom.”” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24.

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• Gregory of Nyssa, On the Baptism of Christ

  “Hence also the blessed David, applying his mind to the magnificence of creation, and filled with perplexed wonder in his soul, spake that verse which is sung by all, “O Lord, how manifold are Thy works: in wisdom hast Thou made them all.”” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 24. The Psalm is the prefatory Psalm at Vespers in the present service of the Eastern Church. S. Gregory seems to indicate some such daily use in his…

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit III.11Book III

  ““Thou hast,” it is said, “made them all in wisdom.”” — editor's note: Ps. civ. [ciii.] 24.

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• Psalm 145:9

  Cited together in Catechism §295.

• Wisdom 9:9

  Cited together in Catechism §295.

• Malachi 3:3

  Cited together in Against Celsus VI.25.

• Matthew 18:10

  Cited together in The City of God XI.32.

• Matthew 22:30

  Cited together in The City of God XI.32.

• Luke 18:8

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 37.

• John 8:25

  Cited together in The City of God XI.32.

• Romans 8:24

  Cited together in Confessions XI.9.

• Romans 8:25

  Cited together in Confessions XI.9.

• Romans 9:12

  Cited together in De Principiis II.9.

• 1 Corinthians 15:41

  Cited together in De Principiis II.9.

• Revelation 3:14

  Cited together in The City of God XI.32.

• Revelation 4:11

  Cited together in Catechism §295.

• Psalm 31:10

  Cited together in Confessions XI.9.

• Psalm 103:3

  Cited together in Confessions XI.9.

• Psalm 103:4

  Cited together in Confessions XI.9.

• Psalm 103:5

  Cited together in Confessions XI.9.