Genesis 1:14 (WEB)
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
Catechism · 2
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.
“Worship is inscribed in the order of creation.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:14.
Fathers and councils · 13
Tertullian
“And God said, “Let there be a firmament,…and God made the firmament;” and God also said, “Let there be lights (in the firmament); and so God made a greater and a lesser light.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14, 16.
Read the whole comment““Let them be,” says God, “for seasons, and for days, and years.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14.
Read the whole comment“…years are measured by suns, and moons, and stars, which He ordained for this purpose (for “they shall be,” says He, “for signs of the months and the years”), it clearly follows that the ages belong to the Creator, and that nothing of what was fore-ordained before the ages can be said to be the property of any other…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14, inexactly quoted.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For of these matters the Scripture says well, And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for years, not for fables of astrology and nativities.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Both the stars and luminaries of heaven are “for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14.
Read the whole comment“Thus, O Lord, thus, I beseech Thee, let there arise, as Thou makest, as Thou givest joy and ability,—let “truth spring out of the earth, and righteousness look down from heaven,” and let there be “lights in the firmament.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment““That they may be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.”…This expression also, “before the morning star,” is used both figuratively and literally, and was thus fulfilled.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14.
Read the whole comment“And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14–18.
Read the whole comment“…begin with the motion of the heavenly bodies, and so God said, when He appointed them, “Let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years,”—if, I say, time was before these heavenly bodies by some changing movement, whose parts succeeded one another and could not exist simultaneously, and if there…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14.
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Basil the Great
““And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to divide the day from the night.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14, LXX.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“For you all are accustomed to reckon the times from the creation of the sun and the moon, since it is written of them, And let them be for signs and for times and for years.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 14.
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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 · 11
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in Confessions XI.23.
Cited together in Confessions XI.23.
Cited together in Confessions XI.23.
Cited together in The City of God XII.15.
Cited together in The City of God XII.15.
Cited together in The City of God XII.15.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in The City of God XII.15.