Psalm 110:3 (WEB)
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Fathers and councils · 19
Tertullian
“…passage where it is declared, “The Lord said unto Himself, I am my own Son, to-day have I begotten myself;” or again, “Before the morning did I beget myself;” and likewise, “I the Lord possessed Myself the beginning of my ways for my own works; before all the hills, too, did I beget myself;” and whatever other…” — editor's note: In allusion to Ps. cx. 3 (Sept.)
Read the whole comment“Therefore, (as they further hold,) those other words, “Before the morning star did I beget thee from the womb,” are applicable to Hezekiah, and to the birth of Hezekiah.” — editor's note: Tertullian, as usual, argues from the Septuagint, which in the latter clause of Ps. cx. 3 has ἐκ γαστρὸς πρὸ ἑωσφόρου ἐγέννησά σε; and so the Vulgate version…
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…since there are ill-instructed men who, while resisting the doctrine of a Son, think little of the words, ‘From the womb before the morning star I begat Thee;’ as if this referred to His relation to Mary, alleging that He was born of Mary ‘before the morning star,’ for that to say ‘womb’ could not refer to His…” — editor's note: Ib. cx. 3, LXX.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For He speaks thus: “From the womb, before the morning star, I have begotten Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
Read the whole comment“Now the Logos of God controls all these; the first begotten Child of the Father, the voice of the Dawn antecedent to the Morning Star.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3; 2 Pet. i. 18, 19.
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Ambrose of Milan
“He it is Whom the Father begat before the morning star, as being eternal, He brought Him forth from the womb as the Son; He uttered him from His heart, as the Word.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. [cix.] 3.
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Justin Martyr
“And then, what is said by David, ‘In the splendours of Thy holiness have I begotten Thee from the womb, before the morning star.” — editor's note: Note this beautiful rendering, Ps. cx. 3.
Read the whole comment“And David predicted that He would be born from the womb before sun and moon, according to the Father’s will, and made Him known, being Christ, as God strong and to be worshipped.”” — editor's note: Justin puts “sun and moon” instead of “Lucifer.” [Ps. cx. 3, Sept, compounded with Prov. viii. 27.] Maranus says, David did predict, not that Christ would be…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““And do not these words, I begot thee ‘from the womb before the morning,’ plainly show the natural sonship of the paternal birth of One whose lot it is, not from diligence of conduct, or exercise in moral progress, but by individuality of nature?” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3. Sept. ἐκ γαστρὸς πρὸ ᾽Εωσφόρου ἐγέννησά σε
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Augustine of Hippo
““With Thee the beginning on the day of Thy power” (ver. 3).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“He before the sun, who made the sun, He before the day-star, before all the stars, before all angels, the true Creator, (“for all things were made by Him, and without Him was…” — editor's note: Ante luciferum. Ps. cx. 3.
Read the whole comment“In fine, before heaven and earth.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
Read the whole comment“According to the form of God, it is said “Before all the hills He begat me,” that is, before all the loftinesses of things created and, “Before the dawn I begat Thee,” that is, before all times and temporal things: but according to the form of a servant, it is said, “The Lord created me in the beginning of His ways.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3. Vulgate.
Read the whole comment“The Father saith to the Son, “From the womb before the day-star, I begat Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. cix. 3, Sept. (cx. English version).
Read the whole comment“Listen to the voice of the Father to the Son: “Before Lucifer I have begotten Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.—Vulgate.
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Jerome
“For in thee was born the prince begotten before Lucifer.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3, Vulg.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“It is not because He has bodily members, that God records the generation of the Son in the words, I bore Thee from the womb before the morning star.” — editor's note: Psalm cix. (cx.) 3.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Rabanus MaurusCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…my Servant whom I have chosen.” [Isa 42:1] He is Aminadab, that is ‘willing,’ [ed. note, o: עמי נדב My people is willing, - Jerome; comp. עַמְּךָ נְדָבֹת, Ps 110:3], in that He says, “I will freely sacrifice to Thee.” [Isa 54:6] Also He is Naasson [ed. note, p: נחשן, from נחש to augur from serpents, and so…” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“The Lord hath sworn, and He will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
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Cross-references · 34
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.1.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 1:3–6 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 11.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 63.
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 1:3–6 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 1:3–6 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 1:3–6 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 1:3–6 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 1:3–6 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.1.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.1.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.1.
Cited together in Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 1:3–6 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.18.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.18.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 11.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 63.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 63.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 63.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 63.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 63.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 63.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 11.