Genesis 1:24 (WEB)
God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.
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 · 10
Tertullian
“Again afterwards: “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after their kind.”” — editor's note: Ver. 24.
Read the whole comment“Again: “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, after their kind.”” — editor's note: Ver. 24.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“God’s command was but one, which said, Let the earth bring forth wild beasts, and cattle, and creeping things, after their kinds and from one earth, by one command, have sprung diverse natures, the gentle sheep and the carnivorous lion, and various instincts of irrational animals,…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 24.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.8Book II
“The opinion of holy Scripture, however, is manifest, when God says, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, four-footed beasts, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 24, living creature, animam.
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Basil the Great
“And God said “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 24.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Again, the earthy matter certainly serves in common to the production and formation both of all kinds of wood and of the flesh of all animals: and who makes these things, but He who said, Let the earth bring them forth; and who governs and guides by the same word of His, those things which He has created?” — editor's note: Gen. i. 24
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
Read the whole comment“Without troubling themselves much, they might have found in a preceding page of this very book of Genesis the words, “Let the earth bring forth the living soul,” when all the terrestrial animals were created.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“If, however, they were produced out of the earth as at their first creation, when God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature,” this makes it more evident that all kinds of animals were preserved in the ark, not so much for the sake of renewing the stock, as of prefiguring the various…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 24.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.5.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 29.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 22.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 22.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 22.