Psalm 22:1 (WEB)
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Fathers and councils · 24
Eusebius of Caesarea
“…let every one of those who have been summoned sing with loud voice and say, ‘I was glad when they said unto me, we shall go unto the house of the Lord,’ and ‘Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house and the place where thy glory dwelleth.’” — editor's note: Psa. cxxii. 1.
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Ambrose of Milan
““My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1. Cf. S. Matt. xxvii. 46; S. Mark xv. 24.
Read the whole comment“Finally, He cried: “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1; S. Matt. xxviii. 46; S. Mark xv. 34.
Read the whole comment“Of Him the Scripture saith, in the passage cited, in order to discover the mysteries of the Incarnation: “But Thou hast rejected, O Lord, and counted for nought—Thou hast cast out Thy Christ.” — editor's note: Or, “thine Anointed.” Cf. Ps. xxii. 1; S. Matt. xxvii. 46.
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Augustine of Hippo
““O God, my God, look upon me, why hast Thou forsaken me far from my salvation?” (ver. 1).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But how could He who had no sin, say, “There is no rest in my bones, from the face of my sin.”…For if we were to say that they are not the words of Christ, those words, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” will also not be the words of Christ.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
Read the whole comment“I will say unto God, “Thou art my lifter up; why hast Thou forgotten me?”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 46; Ps. xxii. 1.
Read the whole comment“This is the case also with that Psalm, the first verse of which the Lord Himself uttered on the Cross: “My God, My God, look upon Me; why hast Thou forsaken Me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
Read the whole comment“For whence, unless assumed from us, were those words, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1; Matt. xxvii. 46.
Read the whole comment“For privations of this world had inspired him to prayer, and being set in temporal tribulations he had wished that temporal tribulations should pass away, and there should return the flower of grass; and he saith, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
Read the whole comment“And this indeed we know to have been His voice on the Cross out of a certain Psalm: “O God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
Read the whole comment“So then did God forsake Christ, though “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,” though Christ was also God, out of the Jews indeed according to the flesh, “Who is over all things, God blessed for ever,”—did God forsake Him?” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
Read the whole comment“And so it follows: “Lord, why hast Thou cast off my prayer?” (ver. 14), which may be compared with another Psalm: “My God, My God, look upon me; why hast Thou forsaken me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Yet, fixing our weakness upon the Cross, where, as the Apostle saith, “our old man is crucified with Him,” He cried out in the voice of that our “old man,” “Why hast Thou forsaken Me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1; Matt. xxvii. 46.
Read the whole comment“The patience of Job we know, and the end of the Lord we know.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1
Read the whole comment“For it was in a mystery as regards our inner man, so as to signify the death of our soul, that those words were uttered, not only in the Psalm, but also on the cross: “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1, and Matt. xxvii. 46
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John Chrysostom
“Wherefore also He uttered a certain cry from the prophet,even to His last hour bearing witness to the Old Testament, and not simply a cry from the prophet, but also in Hebrew, so as to be plain and intelligible to them, and by all things He shows how He is of one mind with Him that begat Him.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
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“He employed the beginning of the twenty-first Psalm. [marg. note: Ps 22:1, Vulg.]” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“There is introduced a confusion of the natures, and to God the Word are applied the words “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me;” and “Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me,” the hunger, the thirst, and the strengthening by an angel; His saying “Now is my soul troubled,” and…” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1
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Jerome
“In the Hebrew the twenty-second psalm begins with the exact words which the Lord uttered on the cross: Eli Eli lama azabthani, which means, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
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Tertullian
“…as is plain,—not for the stomach’s sake, to wit, but the soul’s; for the most part, however, to feed prayers on fastings, to groan, to weep and make outcries unto the Lord your God; to bow before the feet of the presbyters, and kneel to God’s dear ones; to enjoin on all the brethren to be ambassadors to bear his…” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. xxii. 1 (in LXX. xxii. 3), xxxviii. 8 (in the LXX. xxxvii. 9). Cf. Heb. v. 7.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He thought that he was singing, as he had never done before, though his wife was frequent in her supplications and prayers, this verse from the psalms of holy David: I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the house of the Lord.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Of the same kind, it appears to me, is the expression, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
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Leo the Great
“Hence it is that the Lord Jesus Christ, our Head, representing all the members of His body in Himself, and speaking for those whom He was redeeming in the punishment of the cross, uttered that cry which He had once uttered in the psalm, “O God, My God, look upon Me: why hast Thou forsaken Me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together with
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 9.
Cited together in On the Creed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 9.
Cited together in On the Creed Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 9.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.
Cited together in Letters Letter 171.
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Quoted in
Matthew 27:46 takes up the words of Psalm 22:1 (8 words in common).
Mark 15:34 takes up the words of Psalm 22:1 (8 words in common).
