2 Maccabees 7:28 (WEB)
I beg you, my child, to lift your eyes to the sky and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognize that God made them not of things that were, and that the race of men in this way comes into being.
Catechism · 1
“Thus also mankind comes into being.” — Catechism footnote: 2 Macc 7:22-21, 28.
Fathers and councils · 2
Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.1Book II
“…to look at the heaven and the earth, and at all things which are in them, and beholding these, to know that God made all these things when they did not exist.”” — editor's note: 2 Mac. vii. 28.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“For all things, as the Prophet says, were made out of nothing; it was no transformation of existing things, but the creation into a perfect form of the non-existent.” — editor's note: 2 Macc. vii. 28.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in De Principiis II.1.
Cited together in De Principiis II.1.
Cited together in De Principiis II.1.
Cited together in De Principiis II.1.
Cited together in De Principiis II.1.