Cosmas Indicopleustes, on Ps 8:4

“For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.”

“How by his teaching regarding the form of a servant which he took upon him, did he deign to show mildly glimpses of his divinity, to receive accusations preferred against him by his own creatures, and to answer them, not with anger but with mildness and forbearance? O the excess of his long-suffering! as David was privileged still further to make such prophecies, for he speaks also concerning his human nature in the same psalm from the passage: What is man that thou art mindful of him?”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.