Psalm 8:4 (WEB)
what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
Fathers and councils · 10
Augustine of Hippo
“Now that many men regenerated and perfected, are rightly called the multitude of God’s mercy, who can deny; when it is most truly said, “What is man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that Thou visitest him?” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 4.
Read the whole comment““What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that Thou visitest him?” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Here by that rule I would wish to take “the sons of men” of those that from old men have been regenerated by faith.” — editor's note: Cf. S. Aug. Ps. viii. 4, § 10, on the words, “What is man, that Thou art mindful of him; or the son of man, that Thou visitest him?” and Ps. ix. 20, § 19, on…
Read the whole comment“For though there were a great multitude of believers, that might be compared to the countless sand, and brought into one communion as into one heap; yet “what is man, save Thou be mindful of Him?”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 4.
Read the whole comment““What,” I say, “is man,” a creature going astray from the Creator, unless his Creator “be mindful of him,” and choose him freely, and love him freely?” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 4
Read the whole comment““For what is man,” saith Scripture, “saving that Thou art mindful of him?”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 4.
Read the whole comment““For what is man, save that thou art mindful of him?”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 4.
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Tertullian
“Therefore I detect the nativity of impatience in the devil himself, at that very time when he impatiently bore that the Lord God subjected the universal works which He had made to His own image, that is, to man.” — editor's note: See Ps. viii. 4–6.
Read the whole comment“…so many and so great sins of human temerity, begun by the first of the race, Adam, after the condemnation of man, together with the dowry of the world after his ejection from paradise and subjection to death—when He had hasted back to His own mercy, did from that time onward inaugurate repentance in His own…” — editor's note: Sæculi dote. With which he had been endowed. Comp. Gen. i. 28; Ps. viii. 4–8.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For the Holy Spirit has sung, “I will look to the heavens, the works of Thy hands;” and, “He who created the heavens dwells in the heavens;” and, “Heaven is Thy throne.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 4.
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Cited together in On Patience Chapter 19.
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Hebrews 2:6 takes up the words of Psalm 8:4 (16 words in common).
