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Psalm 8:5

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Psalm 8:5 (WEB)

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

Catechism · 2

The Revelation of Prayer - the Universal Call to Prayer

  • §2566Chapter One · The Revelation of Prayer - the Universal Call to PrayerRead at vatican.va

    “"Crowned with glory and honor," man is, after the angels, capable of acknowledging "how majestic is the name of the Lord in all the earth."” — Catechism footnote: Ps 8:5; 8:1.

The Seven Petitions

  • §2809Article 3 · The Seven PetitionsRead at vatican.va

    “In making man in his image and likeness, God "crowned him with glory and honor," but by sinning, man fell "short of the glory of God."” — Catechism footnote: Ps 8:5; Rom 3:23; cf. Gen 1:26.

Fathers and councils · 16

Jerome

  • “…tilling the earth, or conveying the fruits thereof, or to be the companions of man, and hence, because they are man’s helpers, they have their name jumenta.‘What is man,’ says David, ‘that thou art mindful of him?” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 5 sq.

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Tertullian

  • “For the Father is the entire substance, but the Son is a derivation and portion of the whole, as He Himself acknowledges: “My Father is greater than I.” In the Psalm His inferiority is described as being “a little lower than the angels.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 5.

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  • “This heaven the Father willed to be His own throne; while He made the Son to be “a little lower than the angels,” by sending Him down to the earth, but meaning at the same time to “crown Him with glory and honour,” even by taking Him back to heaven.” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 5.

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  • “…plague, and knowing how to bear infirmity:” to wit as having been set by the Father “for a stone of offence,” and “made a little lower” by Him “than angels,” He pronounces Himself “a worm, and not a man, an ignominy of man, and the refuse of the People.”” — editor's note: See Ps. viii. 5 (viii. 6 in LXX.) with Heb. ii. 5–9.

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  • “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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  • “Forasmuch, however, as it has been declared concerning the Son Himself, “Thou hast made Him a little lower than the angels” how will it appear that He put on the nature of angels if He was made lower than the angels, having become man, with flesh and soul as the Son of man?” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 5.

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  • “For the Father, after making Him a little lower than the angels, “will crown Him with glory and honour, and put all things under His feet.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 5, 6.

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Ambrose of Milan

Augustine of Hippo

  • “Of whom, by reason of the very weakness of the flesh, which the Wisdom of God vouchsafed to bear, and the humiliation of the Passion, it is justly said, “Thou hast lowered Him a little lower than the Angels” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it

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  • “…the Lord in His sufferings yielded to him; for of Him, too, is understood what is read in the Psalm, “For Thou hast made Him a little lower than the angels:” so that He, being Himself put to death, although innocent, by the unjust one acting against us as it were by just right, might by a most just right overcome…” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 5

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Basil the Great

John Cassian

Gregory of Nazianzus

Clement of Alexandria

Cross-references · 19

Cited together with

  • Cited together in Catechism §2809.

  • Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 14.

  • Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 14.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 9.

  • Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 14.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 14.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 2.

  • Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 9.

  • Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 9.

  • Cited together in Catechism §2566.

  • Cited together in Catechism §2809.

  • Cited together in Catechism §2809.

  • Cited together in Catechism §2809.

Quoted in

  • Hebrews 2:7 takes up the words of Psalm 8:5 (14 words in common).

  • Hebrews 2:9 takes up the words of Psalm 8:5 (10 words in common).

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