Psalm 19:4 (WEB)
Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
Catechism · 1
“Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of his creation, though not without great effort and only in a spirit of humility and respect before the Creator and his work.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ps 19:2-5; Job 42:3.
Fathers and councils · 38
Origen
“And we see that “the voice of the apostles of Jesus has gone forth into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
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Tertullian
“Again, in the Psalms, David says: “Bring to God, ye countries of the nations”—undoubtedly because “unto every land” the preaching of the apostles had to “go out”—“bring to God fame and honour; bring to God the sacrifices of His name: take up victims and enter into His courts.”” — editor's note: Comp. Matt. xxviii. 19, 20, Mark xvi. 15, 16, Luke xxiv. 45–48, with Ps. xix. 4 (xviii. 5 in LXX.), as explained in Rom. x. 18.
Read the whole comment“…apostles, are pointed to in the Psalms of David: “Into the universal earth,” says he, “is gone out their sound, and unto the ends of the earth their words.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4 (xviii. 5. in LXX.) and Rom. x. 18.
Read the whole comment“And from that time they turned their steps away, as those who went before them had laid it down, and departed into the way of the Gentiles, and entered into the cities of the Samaritans; so that, in very deed, their sound went forth into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Even to the last He taught us (the same truth of His mission), when He sent forth His apostles to preach His gospel “among all nations;” for He thus fulfilled the psalm: “Their sound is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment“For this quality, it will be evident, can only belong to that gospel which was the first to fill the world; in other words, to the gospel of that God who of old declared this of its promulgation: “Their sound is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…hath gone out into all the world,” though expressed as of time past, are meant to apply to something future, not yet completed; as the Prophet [marg. note: Ps 19:4], whose words he quotes, said that the Gospel bore fruit and grew in the whole world, to shew thereby to what extent its growth should come.” — the author cites it
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“…the doctrine of the Saviour, like the rays of the sun, quickly illumined the whole world; and straightway, in accordance with the divine Scriptures, the voice of the inspired evangelists and apostles went forth through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment“At that very time, indeed, the voice of his holy apostles “went throughout all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For concerning these they had said, “There is neither speech nor language, whereof their voices are not heard; their sound went out into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 3, 4
Read the whole comment“For “there is no speech, nor language, where their voice is not heard;” seeing their sound “hath gone through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world,” because Thou, O Lord, hast multiplied these things by blessing.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 3, 4. The word “sound” in this verse (as given in the LXX. and Vulg.), is in the Hebrew קַוָּם, which is rightly rendered in the Authorized Version a…
Read the whole comment“They are due to them, too, as to the living soul, supplying itself as an example in all continency; and due unto them likewise as flying creatures, for their blessings which are multiplied upon the earth, since their sound went out into all lands.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment““Their sound is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Let heavens go, let the heavens tell, into every land let their sound go out, and unto the ends of the world their words: and let that body say, “From the ends of the world unto Thee have I cried, when my heart was in heaviness.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment““Unto every land hath gone forth the sound of them, and unto the ends of the orb the words of them.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment“…and of these heavens declaring the glory of God it is presently said, “There is neither speech nor language, but their voices are heard among them,” etc. When then these heavens sent forth their voices through all lands, and did wonderful things, while the Lord flashed and thundered from them by miracles and…” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 1, 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“Now has His going forth been made from the height of heaven, and His return even to the height of heaven.” — editor's note: [Ps. xix. 1–6, partly in citation, partly in allegorizing paraphrase.—R.]
Read the whole comment“And how should He be seen in the sun who made the sun, except as “in the sun He hath set His tabernacle; and Himself as a bridegroom going forth out of his chamber, exulted as a giant to run His course?”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4, 5.
Read the whole comment“Let us awake, my brethren, let us rather see the gift of the Spirit of God, and let us believe the things spoken before concerning Him, and let us see fulfilled the things spoken before in the Psalm: “There are neither speeches nor discourses, but their voices are heard among them.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 3–4.
Read the whole comment“For to us, too, that we may adore the lowly Christ, the “heavens have declared the glory of God, when their sound went into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 1, 4
Read the whole comment“…“There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard; their sound is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 3, 4
Read the whole comment“But the prayer which you receive to-day to be learned by heart, and to be repeated eight days hence, was dictated (as you heard when the Gospel was being read) by the Lord Himself to His disciples, and came from them unto us, since “their sound went into all the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 5, Sept. (xix. 4, English version).
Read the whole comment“Their sound is gone out through all the earth, and their words unto the end of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“And in this same Psalm hear for the Body; “Their sound went out into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment“That is to say, because He shall bear witness, ye also shall bear witness: He in your hearts, you in your voices; He by inspiration, you by utterance: that the words might be fulfilled, “Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
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Justin Martyr
“Wherefore David also says: ‘Their sound has gone forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.’” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
Read the whole comment“In the sun has he set his habitation; and he, like a bridegroom going forth from his chamber, will rejoice as a giant to run his race: from the highest heaven is his going forth, and he returns to the highest heaven, and there is not one who shall be hidden from his heat.’ ”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 1–6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And God is no longer known only in Judæa, but in all the earth, ‘their voice hath gone forth, and the knowledge of Him hath filled all the earth.’” — editor's note: Ib. lxxvi. 1; xix. 4.
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John Chrysostom
“For the very preaching shall bear witness against them, and they will not be able hereafter to say, “We heard not;” for the word of godliness “hath gone out unto the ends of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4; Rom. x. 18.
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Leo the Great
“…trumpet blast go out for the salvation of all men, as it is written: “Their sound has gone out into every land, and their words into the ends of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Your excellency has been fully informed as to the acts of the most righteous judges at Ephesus, for their sound has gone out into all lands and their most just judgment to the ends of the world.” — editor's note: Cf. Psalm xix. 4
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Jerome
“…known in Judah only and His name to be great in Israel alone; the sound of the apostles went out into all the earth and their words into the ends of the world.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
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Ambrose of Milan
“That wood into which Paul entered indeed as a ravening wolf, but went forth as a shepherd, for “their sound is gone out into all the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. [xviii.] 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“The dispensations of the Body of Christ are ended; or rather, what belongs to His Bodily Advent (for I hesitate to say the Dispensation of His Body, as long as no discourse persuades me that it is better to have put off the body), and that of the Spirit is beginning.” — editor's note: S. Gregory makes this explanation because there were certain heretics who taught that our Lord at His Ascension laid aside His Humanity. It is said that this…
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Aphrahat
“For lo! by the faith of Christ are all the ends of the earth filled, as David said:—The sound of the Gospel of Christ has gone forth into all the earth.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4.
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Clement of Alexandria
““For their sound hath gone forth to the ends of the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4; Rom. x. 18.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Now (Hermogenes) resorts to testimony, thinking to support himself by what is spoken, (viz.) what the Psalmist David says: “In the sun he hath placed his tabernacle, and himself (is) as a bridegroom coming forth from his nuptial chamber, (and) he will rejoice as a giant to run his course.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 4, 5.
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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.62.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IV.12.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 42.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IV.12.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.62.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 9.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.62.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.62.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.62.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:9–14 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:9–14 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 24:9–14 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus I.62.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
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Cited together in Church History II.3.
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Cited together in Confessions XIII.20 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.62.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.62.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in Church History II.3.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Catechism §299 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 42.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in An Answer to the Jews Chapter 7.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
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Romans 10:18 takes up the words of Psalm 19:4 (7 words in common).