Qui cantat, bis orat" - Meaning and context.">
He who sings prays twice.
• Not found in his writings. In his "Expositions on the Psalms" for psalm 72, he wrote, "Qui enim cantat laudem, non solum laudat, sed etiam hilariter laudat; qui cantat laudem, non solum cantat, sed et amat eum quem cantat." An English translation would be "For he who sings praise, does not only praise, but also praises joyously; he who sings praise, is not only singing, but also loving Him whom he is singing of."
• The earliest occurrence on Google Books of "Qui cantat, orat bis" is on page 4 of the 1554 book Cantiones Evangelicae: Ad Usitatas Harmonias... by Wenzel Nicolaides.
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Qui cantat, bis orat

— Augustine of Hippo

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Qui cantat, bis orat" in the context of "He who sings prays twice.
• Not found in his writings. In his "Expositions on the Psalms" for psalm 72, he wrote, "Qui enim cantat laudem, non solum laudat, sed etiam hilariter laudat; qui cantat laudem, non solum cantat, sed et amat eum quem cantat." An English translation would be "For he who sings praise, does not only praise, but also praises joyously; he who sings praise, is not only singing, but also loving Him whom he is singing of."
• The earliest occurrence on Google Books of "Qui cantat, orat bis" is on page 4 of the 1554 book Cantiones Evangelicae: Ad Usitatas Harmonias... by Wenzel Nicolaides." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Augustine of Hippo

About Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.