Psalm 85:11 (WEB)
Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
Catechism · 1
“"I give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness."” — Catechism footnote: Ps 138:2; cf. Ps 85:11
Fathers and councils · 12
Irenaeus of Lyons
“As also David says, prophesying His birth from a virgin, and the resurrection from the dead, “Truth has sprung out of the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The earth was condemned to thorns and thistles: the true Vine sprang up out of the earth, that the saying might be fulfilled, Truth sprang up out of the earth, and righteousness looked down from heaven.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…sweet spring, that the earth may bring forth her fruit, and, Thou, O Lord God, so commanding, our soul may bud forth works of mercy according to their kind,—loving our neighbour in the relief of his bodily necessities, having seed in itself according to its likeness, when from our infirmity we compassionate even to…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11.
Read the whole comment“Truth was restored unto us, when “the Truth sprung out of the earth: and Righteousness looked out from heaven.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11.
Read the whole comment““Truth hath sprung out of the earth, and righteousness hath looked down from heaven” (ver. 11).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…destined to come in exaltation.…For thus it is said in the Psalms: “Truth shall flourish out of the earth: and righteousness hath looked down from heaven.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11.
Read the whole comment““Truth springeth from the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11.
Read the whole comment“…lest the faith of mortal life should be at discord with the truth of eternal life,—the Truth itself, co-eternal with the Father, took a beginning from earth, when the Son of God so came as to become the Son of man, and to take to Himself our faith, that He might thereby lead us on to His own truth, who so undertook…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11
Read the whole comment“He mixed spittle with earth; hence it was predicted, “Truth has sprung from the earth;” and He said Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11.
Read the whole comment“This Truth was for our sake clothed with flesh, that He might be born of the Virgin Mary, and the prophecy fulfilled, “Truth has sprung from the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11.
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Jerome
“Even my own Bethlehem, as it now is, that most venerable spot in the whole world of which the psalmist sings: “the truth hath sprung out of the earth,” was overshadowed by a grove of Tammuz, that is of Adonis; and in the very cave where the infant Christ had uttered His earliest cry lamentation was made for…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11, Vulg.
Read the whole comment“Miserable wretch that you are! when you enter the cave wherein the Son of God was born, where truth sprang out of the earth and the land did yield her increase, it is to make an assignation.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxv. 11, 12.
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Catechism §214.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IV.18.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity IV.18.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5.
Cited together in Catechism §214.
Cited together in Catechism §214.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.5.
Cited together in Catechism §214.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.