Genesis 1:10 (WEB)
God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
Catechism · 2
The Creator
“Because creation comes forth from God's goodness, it shares in that goodness - "and God saw that it was good. . . very good"” — Catechism footnote: Gen 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 31.
Heaven and Earth
God himself created the visible world in all its richness, diversity and order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine "work", concluded by the "rest" of the seventh day.
Fathers and councils · 6
Tertullian
““And God called the dry land Earth,” not Matter.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 10.
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John Damascene
“But when the Scripture speaks of one mass it evidently does not mean that they were gathered together into one place: for immediately it goes on to say, And the gatherings of the waters He called seas: but the words signify that the waters were separated off in a body from the earth into distinct groups.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“On the fourth day, the Lord made the lights in heaven: “The sun to rule the day: the moon and stars to govern the night:” this was the work of the fourth day.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3–19.
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Basil the Great
“And the water which was under the heaven gathered together unto one place; “And God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters called He seas.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 9, 10.
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Jerome
“I will come now to the passage in which I am accused of saying that—at least according to the true Hebrew text—the words “God saw that it was good” are not inserted after the second day of the creation, as they are after the first, third, and remaining ones, and of adding immediately the following comment:…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 10.
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Leo the Great
“For as it is now day time and now night time, so the Creator has constituted divers kinds of luminaries, although even before they were made there had been days without the sun and nights without the moon.” — editor's note: He is of course following the Mosaic order of creation, where the creation of the day and night is ascribed to the first day and that of the Sun and Moon to…
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.9.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 4.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 4.
Cited together in Catechism §299.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 4.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 29.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 4.
Cited together in Catechism §299.