Psalm 22:16 (WEB)
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Fathers and councils · 24
Tertullian
“For it had been predicted that the unction should be exterminated in that place; as in the Psalms it is prophesied, “They exterminated my hands and feet.”” — editor's note: See Ps. xxii. 16 (xxi. 17 in LXX.)
Read the whole comment“…already singing, saying, “They were repaying me evil for good;” and, “What I had not seized I was then paying in full;” “They exterminated my hands and feet;” and, “They put into my drink gall, and in my thirst they slaked me with vinegar;” “Upon my vesture they did cast (the) lot;” just as the other (outrages) which…” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16 (xxi. 17 in LXX.).
Read the whole comment““They pierced,” says He, “my hands and my feet,” which is the special cruelty of the cross.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16.
Read the whole comment“But even then the Psalm is not silent concerning it: “They pierced my hands and my feet.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…My feet, they numbered all My bones; but they themselves regarded and beheld Me; they divided among them My garments, and upon My vesture they cast the lot;” but ye see that which was in the same Psalm foretold, and now is clearly fulfilled; “All the ends of the earth shall remember and be turned unto the Lord, and…” — editor's note: Ps xxii. 16, 17, 18; John xix. 23, 24
Read the whole comment““For many dogs came about Me” (ver. 16).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Is it haply He, of whom so long before it was predicted, “They pierced My Hands and My Feet, they numbered all My Bones, they stared and looked upon Me, they have parted My Garments among them, and cast lots for My Vesture”?” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16–18.
Read the whole comment“For the future Passion of our Lord Himself was foretold: and yet it says, “They pierced My hands and My feet.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16–18.
Read the whole comment“He hath told us Himself, and foretold it before He was made a spectacle, and in the words of prophecy announced beforehand what was to come to pass, as if it were already done, saying in the Psalms, “They pierced My hands and My feet, they told all My bones.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“Hear a testimony for the Head; “They digged My Hands and My Feet, they numbered all My Bones; and they looked and stared upon Me; they divided My garments among them, and cast lots upon My vesture.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxi. 17–19, Sept. (xxii. 16–18, English version).
Read the whole comment“Yea, they looked and stared at me.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“For as He says by the prophet, “They pierced my hands and my feet,” and not, They will yet pierce; but speaking as it were of the past, and yet predicting what was still in the future: so also in the passage before us He…” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16.
Read the whole comment“Just as long before, in prophecy, He used words in the past tense, when what He said was to take place very many years afterwards: “They pierced,” He says, “my hands and my feet, they counted all my bones;” He says not, They will pierce, and, They will count.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16, 17. Dinumeraverunt (they counted), in accordance with a reading of the Septuagint—that found in the printed text—ἐξηρίθμησαν. A better reading,…
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Justin Martyr
“And again, in other words, David in the twenty-first Psalm thus refers to the suffering and to the cross in a parable of mystery: ‘They pierced my hands and my feet; they counted all my bones.” — editor's note: That is, Ps. xxii. 16–18.
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John Chrysostom
“…not, “They shall pierce My hands and My feet,” but “They pierced My hands and My feet, and parted My garments among them, and cast lots upon My vesture” ( Ps. xxii. 16, 18 ); and discoursing of the traitor as yet unborn, he says, “He which did eat of My bread, hath lifted up his heel against Me” ( Ps. xli. 9 );…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And elsewhere he mentions also the image of the cross, saying on this wise, “They pierced my hand and my feet,”and those things which the soldiers were emboldened to do, he adds with all exactness, “For they parted my garments,” saith he, “among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Concerning them is that said, “Many dogs have come about me; [Ps 22:16] while to us is said, as to this woman, “Thy faith hath made thee whole.” — the author cites it
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““They pierced my hands and my feet;” [Ps 22:16] and in another place, “He is led as a sheep to the slaughter;” and, “By the iniquities of my people was He led to death.” [Isa 53:7-8]” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…him be crucified;” that it might be fulfilled which is said in the Psalm, “Many dogs have compassed me, the congregation of the wicked hath inclosed me;” [Ps 22:16] and also that of Hieremias, “Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest, they have given forth their voice against me.” [Jer 12:8]” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Leo the GreatCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Had ye indeed ever read, “I hid not my face from the shame of spitting;” [Is 50:6] or that again, :They pierced my hands and my feet, they told all my bones.” [Ps 22:16] Where have ye ever read that the Lord came down from the cross?” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And again: “They pierced my hands and my feet, they numbered all my bones, they parted my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16, sqq.
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Leo the Great
“For ye resolved on a mad and bloody counsel, ye “fat bulls,” ye “many oxen,” ye “roaring” wild beasts, ye rabid “dogs,” to give up to death the Author of life and the Lord of glory; and, as if the enormity of your fury could be palliated by employing the verdict of him, who…” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. xxii. 12, 13, 16.
Read the whole comment“He Himself says by David, “They gave Me gall for My food, and in My thirst they supplied Me with vinegar,” and again, “Many dogs came about Me, the council of evil-doers beset Me.” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 21; xxii. 16, 17.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“I will declare Thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the Church I will praise Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 16–22.
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Cross-references · 34
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XVII.17.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §34.
Cited together in Leo the Great on Matthew 27:39–44 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:55–58 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:55–58 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §34 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 15:21–28 (10) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:55–58 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:55–58 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:55–58 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:55–58 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:15–26 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Leo the Great on Matthew 27:39–44 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 55.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 97.