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Genesis 1:16 (WEB)
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

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§337Paragraph 5 · Heaven and EarthRead at vatican.va
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.

Tertullian, Against Praxeas Chapter 12
“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.
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Origen, De Principiis I.7Book I
“…time mentioned in Scripture, when “God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars also,” or whether their spirit was implanted in them, not at the creation of their bodies, but from without, after they had been already made.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 16.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 94
“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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Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount I.23Book I
“…which He Himself made and established, and for the making of which He took nothing from any one, as it is written in Genesis respecting all the luminaries; and He can properly say that all the things which He has created out of nothing are His own: so that we are hence admonished with how great liberality we…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 16.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XI.19Book XI
“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.
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Basil the Great, Hexaemeron Homily 6
““And God made two great lights.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 16.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 18
“In being freed from the vicissitudes, the agitation, the disgust, and all the vile tribute we must pay to this life, to find ourselves, amid stable things, which know no flux, while as lesser lights, we circle round the great light?” — editor's note: Gen. i. 16.
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Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 27
“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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