Genesis 1:22

• §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

• Tertullian, Against Hermogenes Chapter 12

  “I blame Matter with a like censure, because out of it, evil though it be—nay, very evil—good things have been created, nay, “very good” ones: “And God saw that they were good, and God blessed them”—because, of course, of their very great goodness; certainly not because they were evil, or very evil.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 21, 22.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.10Book V

  “…of our Lord Jesus Christ,” will be understood to be no other God than the Creator, who both blessed all things (that He had made), as you find in Genesis, and is Himself “blessed by all things,” as Daniel tells us.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 22.

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John Damascene

• John Damascene, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.10Book II

  “That this is the case is made worthy of belief from the fact that their endurance is secured by the word of the Lord, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 22.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 128

  “Even to the birds was it said, “Be fruitful and multiply.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 22.

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity III.8Book III

  “…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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• Genesis 3:1

  Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.10.

• Genesis 30:41

  Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.

• Job 26:7

  Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.10.

• Psalm 24:2

  Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.10.

• Psalm 49:12

  Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.10.

• Psalm 75:3

  Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.10.

• Psalm 136:6

  Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.10.

• Matthew 3:7

  Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 12.

• Matthew 3:8

  Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 12.

• Matthew 3:9

  Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 12.

• Matthew 5:5

  Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.10.

• 1 Corinthians 3:6

  Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.

• Philippians 1:18

  Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.