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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 8:4

Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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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

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.

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  • “…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

Cross-references · 10

Cited together with

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Patience Chapter 19.

  • Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

Quoted in

  • Hebrews 2:6 takes up the words of Psalm 8:4 (16 words in common).

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