Psalm 33:9 (WEB)
For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
Fathers and councils · 16
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.60Book VI
“…“commanding this first, second, and third thing to be created,” when we quoted the words, “He said, and it was done; He commanded, and all things stood fast;” remarking that the immediate Creator, and, as it were, very Maker of the world was the Word, the Son of God; while the Father of the Word, by commanding His…” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. xxxiii. 9.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…of earth by undergoing mutation or alteration, but His will sufficed Him for the existence of all things that were made: “He spake and they were generated,” so that even the name of “generation” does not fail to accord with the existence of the earth.” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. xxxiii. 9, and Ps. cxlviii. 5, in LXX. (reading ἐγεννήθησαν).
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“David also expresses the same truth [when he says] “For He spake, and they were made; He commanded, and they were created.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. 9, Ps. cxlviii. 5.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“If then God also wrought and compounded out of materials, this indeed is a gentile thought, according to which God is an artificer and not a Maker, but yet even in that case let the Word work the materials, at the bidding and in the service of God.” — editor's note: προσταττόμενος καὶ ὑπουργῶν. It is not quite clear that Athan. accepts these words in his own person, as has been assumed de Decr. 9. note 2, de Syn. 27 (3).…
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“One, because the creative works of Christ are no other than the Father’s; for the creation of all things is one, the Father having made them through the Son: For He spake, and they were made; He commanded, and they were created, saith the Psalmist.” — editor's note: Psa. xxxiii. 9; cxlviii. 5. S. Cyril explains the creative “Fiat” in Gen. i. as addressed by the Father to the Son.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“And another of the prophets confirms this, speaking of God in his hymns as follows: “He spake and they were made; he commanded and they were created.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. 9. There is really nothing in this passage to imply that the Psalmist thinks, as Eusebius supposes, of the Son as the Father’s agent in creation,…
Read the whole comment“For now, too, ‘he spake, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.’” — editor's note: Psa. xxxiii. 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Therefore Thou didst speak and they were made, and in Thy Word Thou madest these things.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. 9.
Read the whole comment““He commanded, and they were created” (ver. 9): He commanded by His Word, and they were created.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“In another place briefly, “He spake, and they were made; He commanded, and they were created.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxii. 9, Sept. (xxxiii. 9, English version).
Read the whole comment“…the rest were made immediately at His word: to which also the psalm testifies, saying, “He spake, and they were made; He commanded, and they were created,”—how could He require rest after the world was made, as if to enjoy leisure after toil, He who in commanding never toiled?” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. 9.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…anything, or bring it to completion, by labor of hands, or in any course of days, “for He spake, and they were made; He gave the word and they were created,” why should we not believe that He Whom we acknowledge as a Creator, mysteriously working, discerning it in His works, also begat His Son in a mysterious manner?” — editor's note: Ps. cxlviii. 5. Cf. xxxiii. 6, 9.
Read the whole comment“For he had read, “He spake, and they were made: He commanded, and they were created.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. 9; cxlviii. 5.
Read the whole comment““He spake and they were made.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. [xxxii.] 9.
Read the whole comment“For the divine operation works by the power of a command, not in the execution of a ministry; for God, when He works, does not fashion anything by toil or art, but “He spake and they were made.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. [xxxii.] 9.
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John Cassian
“…the armies of heaven, and those countless thousands of thousands of the Divine hosts (“For He spake and they were made, He commanded and they were created”), why was it that that was insufficient for the creation of (according to you) a single man, which was sufficient for the production of all things divine, and…” — editor's note: Ps. xxxii. (xxxiii.) 9.
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Cross-references · 24
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.2.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.2 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.13.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.2.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.2.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.2.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.60.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.13.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.13.