Genesis 1:18 (WEB)
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. 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 · 3
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.
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.
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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 · 7
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 Catechism §299.
Cited together in Catechism §299.