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Psalm 8:7 (WEB)
All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

Fathers and councils · 7

Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius I.15Book I
“The Creator, honouring man in his having been made in His own image, ‘hath placed’ the brute creation ‘in subjection under his feet;’ as great David relating this favour (of God) exclaimed in the Psalms: “He put all things,” he says, “under his feet,” and he mentions by name the creatures so subjected.” — editor's note: Psalm viii. 6–8.
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Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius II.14Book II
“For the Psalmist says that even irrational nature is put in subjection, and brings under the same term those who are overcome in war, while the apostle bids servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and that those who are…” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 7, 8.
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions V.3Book V
“…curiosities, by which (like the fishes of the sea) they wander over the unknown paths of the abyss, nor their own extravagance, as the “beasts of the field,” that Thou, Lord, “a consuming fire,” mayest burn up their lifeless cares and renew them immortally.” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 7, 8.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 8
“And yet he does not seem, as it were, to subjoin any great thing, when he says, “All sheep and oxen, yea, moreover, the beasts of the field, birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which walk through the paths of the sea” (ver. 7).” — the author cites it
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Tertullian, On Repentance Chapter 2
“…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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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.16Book V
“For in another passage the Spirit says to the Father concerning the Son: “Thou hast put all things under His feet.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 7.
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Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy I.28Book I
“And David said: “Thou hast put all things under his feet; all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea.”” — editor's note: Ps. viii. 7, 8.
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