Genesis 1:27 (WEB)
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
Catechism · 8
The Sacrament of Matrimony
“Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision of "the wedding-feast of the Lamb."” — Catechism footnote: Rev 19:7, 9; cf. Gen 1:26-27.
“For man is created in the image and likeness of God who is himself love.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:27; 1 Jn 4:8, 16.
The Sixth Commandment
“"God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them";” — Catechism footnote: Gen 1:27.
The Seventh Commandment
“In the beginning God entrusted the earth and its resources to the common stewardship of mankind to take care of them, master them by labor, and enjoy their fruits.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:26-29.
The Creator
“To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of "subduing" the earth and having dominion over it.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:26-28.
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.
Man
“"God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them."” — Catechism footnote: Gen 1:27.
Man's Capacity for God
“Man has this capacity because he is created "in the image of God".” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:27
Fathers and councils · 41
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.30Book IV
“…recorded to have said, “Let Us make man after Our image and likeness,” but that He made man “after the image” of God, but not then also “after His likeness,” he would not have represented us as saying that “we are altogether like Him.”” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. i. 27.
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“…and then he adds the words: “So God created man in His own image: in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them, and He blessed them.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27, 28.
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Tertullian
“Similarly it (afterwards) treats of man: “And God created man, in the image of God made He him.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“In the following text also He distinguishes among the Persons: “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God created He him.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“…to Cæsar what are Cæsar’s, and what are God’s to God;” that is, the image of Cæsar, which is on the coin, to Cæsar, and the image of God, which is on man, to God; so as to render to Cæsar indeed money, to God yourself.” — editor's note: See Gen. i. 26, 27; ix. 6; and comp. 1 Cor. xi. 7.
Read the whole comment““And God made man; (conformable) to the image and likeness of God made He him.”” — editor's note: Comp. Gen. i. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment“And “God,” says (the Scripture), “formed man.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
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John Damascene
“But they will perhaps ask, what then is the meaning of “male and female,” and “Be fruitful and multiply?”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And after Adam was made, the sacred writer says, And God created man; in the image of God created He him.” — editor's note: Ib. i. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And what that should be in us, by which we were like unto God, and might rightly in Scripture be said to be after “the image of God,” I was entirely ignorant.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27; see vi. sec. 4, note.
Read the whole comment“But so soon as I understood, withal, that man made “after the image of Him that created him” was not so understood by Thy spiritual sons (whom of the Catholic mother Thou hadst begotten again through grace), as though they believed and imagined Thee to…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 10, and Gen. i. 26, 27. And because we are created in the image of God, Augustin argues (Serm. lxxxviii. 6), we have the ability to see and know Him,…
Read the whole comment“And therefore this being said in the plural, “Let us make man,” it is yet subjoined in the singular, “and God made man;” and this being said in the plural, “after our likeness,” is subjoined in the singular, “after the image of God.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“…who are spiritually set over, but those also who are spiritually subjected to those placed over them; for in this manner hast Thou made man, male and female, in Thy grace spiritual, where, according to the sex of body, there is not male and female, because neither Jew nor Greek, nor bond nor free.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“God made man, He made substance; and O that he had continued in that which God made Him!” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“For thou hast willed perversely to be like thy God, who hadst been made after the image of thy Lord.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“And what, I pray, or of what sort is that innocence, if of heart it is not, where man was made after the image of God?” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“What reward wilt thou give the Lord, for His having created thee above all the cattle; and above all the fowls of the air, in His image and likeness?” — editor's note: Gen. i. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment“…Himself: in order that in this sixth age the mind of man may be renewed after the image of God, even as on the sixth day man was made after the image of God.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27
Read the whole comment“And Holy Scripture commends to us the perfection of this number, especially in this, that God finished His works in six days, and on the sixth day man was made in the image of God.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27
Read the whole comment“For God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;” and a little after it is said, “So God created man in the image of God.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 26, 27
Read the whole comment“Yet what is there in its nature as created, better than that it is made after the image of its Creator?” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27
Read the whole comment“That which is meant by “created after God,” is expressed in another place by “after the image of God.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27
Read the whole comment“…God, which is man in respect to his mind, which mind is “renewed in the knowledge” of God, “after the image of Him that created” man; “after His own image;” and so obtains wisdom, wherein is the contemplation of things eternal.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27
Read the whole comment“…we had begun, and planned according to the (as it were) more familiar consideration of our own mind, according to which man is made after the image of God, in order to relieve our overstrained attention; and thereupon we dwelt from the ninth to the fourteenth book upon the consideration of the creature, which we…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27
Read the whole comment““We were made after the image of God,” but we disfigured it by sinful transgression.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“Let us then be reformed after the image of God, because that on the sixth day man was made after the image of God.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“Read what follows, “And God made man.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“For no sooner had Scripture said, “Male and female created He them,” than it immediately continues, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Increase, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it,” etc. And though…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27, 28.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Eran.—Man is not an image of God, but was made in the image of God.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27
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Ambrose of Milan
“So also you may read in Genesis: “And God said,—and God made,” and, lower down, “And God made man in the image of God;” yet it was not two gods, but one God, that made [man].” — editor's note: Gen. i. 26, 27.
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Basil the Great
““So God created man.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
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Jerome
“But so also are the angels, the powers, and the virtues, as well as the inward man who is created in the image and after the likeness of God.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. iv. 16; Gen. i. 27.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“It would be better however to quote the very words: “And God created man, in the image of God created He him.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.17On the Making of Man
“After saying, “Let us make man in our image,” and for what purposes it was said “Let us make him,” it adds this saying:—“and God created man; in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
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“I take up then once more in my argument our first text:—God says, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and God created man, in the image of God created He him.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment - Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.12On Virginity
“…man, at once the work and the likeness of the Divine and Imperishable Mind (for so in the Creation it is written of him that “God made man in His image”), this creature, I say, did not in the course of his first production have united to the very essence of his nature the liability to passion and to death.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment “In truth this has been shown in the comprehensive utterance of one expression, in the description of the cosmogony, where it is said that man was made “in the image of God”.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“But an argument from words is an insufficient proof, unless its result be confirmed by the evidence of facts; and accordingly it is written, And God made man; after the image of God made He him.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Rather, shew respect for yourselves, and the Image committed to your care, and Him Who committed it, and the Sufferings of Christ, and your hopes therefrom, holding fast the faith which ye have received, and in which ye were brought…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
Read the whole comment“Adam was honoured by the hand of God, and the delights of Paradise, and the first legislation: but, unless I slander the reputation of our first parent, he kept not the command.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Dixit enim: “Multiplicemini;” ubi hoc subaudiendum est: “Et ea ratione fit homo Dei imago, quatenus homo co-operatur ad generationem hominis.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 27, 28.
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