Psalm 19:5 (WEB)
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
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 · 23
Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Ps. 19:5)” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For being to the sight as it were a small body he contains a mighty power; appearing from the East, and sending forth his light unto the West: whose rising at dawn the Psalmist described, saying: And he cometh forth out of his chamber as a bridegroom.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…Him,—our mortal flesh, that it might not be for ever mortal,—and thence “as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, rejoicing as a strong man to run a race.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
Read the whole comment““And He as a bridegroom coming forth out of His chamber” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Is there then no Bridechamber in that marriage-feast to which we are invited?” — editor's note: Thalamus. Ps. xix. 5, so Vulgate.
Read the whole comment“But if we take the word giant in a good sense, as it is said of our Lord, “He rejoiceth as a giant to run his course;” that is Giant of giants, chief among the greatest and strongest, who in His Church excel in spiritual strength.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
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“For, according to the form of God, He is the beginning, that also speaketh unto us, in which “beginning” God created the heaven and the earth; but according to the form of a servant, “He is a bridegroom coming out of His chamber.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5
Read the whole comment“For He “who came forth as a Bridegroom out of His chamber,” that is, out of the virgin’s womb, where the holy nuptials were celebrated of the Word and the Flesh: He brought, I say, a temporal miracle; but He is Himself…” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
Read the whole comment“Hear for the Head; And “He is as a bridegroom coming forth out of His bride-chamber.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
Read the whole comment“The womb of the Virgin Mary, in which He became head of the Church, was His bridal chamber: thence He came forth, as a bridegroom from his chamber, as the Scripture foretold, “And rejoiced as a giant to run his way.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
Read the whole comment“And there might, indeed, be no impropriety in so understanding it, seeing that a twofold substance belongeth to the strong man, who hath rejoiced to run the race; for the Word was made flesh, that is, God became man.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
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Justin Martyr
“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.
Read the whole comment“And when they tell that Hercules was strong, and travelled over all the world, and was begotten by Jove of Alcmene, and ascended to heaven when he died, do I not perceive that the Scripture which speaks of Christ, ‘strong as a giant to run his race,’ has been in like manner imitated?” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
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John Chrysostom
“Here he shows that [God] counts us worthy of greater and of spiritual [privileges]: for it is said “their sound went out into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world.” ( Ps. xix. 5; Rom. x. 18.)” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
“…and without any doubt to believe that one and the same Son of God, who can never be divided, existing in two natures (who was also spoken of as a “giant”) in the days of His Flesh truly took upon Him all that belongs to man, and ever truly had as His own what belongs to God: since even though He was crucified in…” — editor's note: The allusion is to Ps. xviii. (xix.) 5, where the Latin (Gallican Psalter) has “Exultavit, ut gigas, ad currendam viam.” The mystical interpretation which…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…him, but he outshines them and does not even allow it to be perceived that they rose simultaneously with him, fair as a bridegroom, swift and great as a giant for I will not let his praises be sung from any other source than my own Scriptures—so mighty in strength that from one end to the other of the world he…” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
Read the whole comment“So that I will not hesitate to say even this, his utterance went out into all lands, and the power of his words to the ends of the world: as S. Paul says of the Apostles, borrowing the words from David.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
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Tertullian
“In response to which is the psalm, “Their sound is gone through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world;” that is, the words of them who carry round about the law that proceeded from Sion and the Lord’s word from Jerusalem, in order that that might come to pass…” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5.
Read the whole comment“I hold also that it is my Christ who is meant by the bridegroom, of whom the psalm says: “He is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and His return is back to the end of it again.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5, 6.
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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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Cyprian of Carthage
“From the height of heaven is his going forth, and his circuit even to the end of it; and there is nothing which is hid from his heat.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 5, 6.
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Cross-references · 37
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
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 Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 64.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 69.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 69.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 69.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 69.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 69.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 69.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 69.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 59 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 2:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 2:1–4 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 59.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 59.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.