Genesis 1:20 (WEB)
God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Catechism · 1
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 · 11
Tertullian
“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20, 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Let the sea also conceive and bring forth your works, and let the waters bring forth the moving creatures that have life.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20.
Read the whole comment“And hereby, in Thy Word, not the depth of the sea, but the earth parted from the bitterness of the waters, bringeth forth not the creeping and flying creature that hath life, but the living soul itself.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20.
Read the whole comment“These fowls sprung of the water at the word of God, saying, “Let the waters bring forth fowls.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20.
Read the whole comment“For on the fifth day God from the waters created animals: on the fifth day, that is, on the “fifth of the sabbath,” God said, “Let the waters bring forth creeping things of living souls.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20.
Read the whole comment“…the water produced the first swimming creatures and fowl, and the earth the first buds after their kind, and the first living creatures after their kind.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20–25
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Basil the Great
“It is of it that Scripture says, “The fowl of the air,” “Fowl that may fly…in the open firmament of heaven;” and, elsewhere, “They mount up to heaven.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20.
Read the whole comment““And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life” after their kind, “and fowl that may fly above the earth” after their kind.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20.
Read the whole comment““Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament, of heaven.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20.
Read the whole comment“At the creation of the world, birds of the air and the fishes of the sea had the same origin; for both kinds were produced from the water.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 20 and 21.
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John Chrysostom
“At first it was said, “Let the waters bring forth the creeping things that have life” ( Gen. i. 20 , LXX.); but from the time that the Lord entered the streams of Jordan, the water no longer gives forth the “creeping thing that hath life,” but…” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 25
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 22.