Genesis 1:3 (WEB)
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Catechism · 3
The Creator
“The Old Testament suggests and the New Covenant reveals the creative action of the Son and the Spirit,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Pss 33 6; 104:30; Gen 1:2-3.
“God "gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist." and since God was able to make light shine in darkness by his Word, he can also give the light of faith to those who do not yet know him.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 1:3; 2 Cor 4:6.
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 · 25
Gregory of Nyssa
“For “God said,” he tells us, “Let there be light, and there was light:” and so about the rest, without any mention either of matter or of any instrumental agency.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“But if any one believes in [only] one God, who also made all things by the Word, as Moses likewise says, “God said, Let there be light: and there was light;” and as we read in the Gospel, “All things were made by Him; and without Him was nothing made;” and the Apostle Paul [says] in like manner, “There is one Lord,…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
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Tertullian
““And God said,” “and God made,” “and God saw;” but nowhere do we yet find the Lord.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3, etc.
Read the whole comment“Then, therefore, does the Word also Himself assume His own form and glorious garb, His own sound and vocal utterance, when God says, “Let there be light.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“Its first statement indeed is made, when the Son has not yet appeared: “And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“Now who was it that said; “Let there be light?”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
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John Damascene
“For the divine Scripture says, And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“…and energising, and the Lord did all that He willed; if He said, Let there be light and there was light, let there be a firmament and there was a firmament; if the heavens were established by the Word of the Lord and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth; if the heaven and the earth, water and fire and…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3 and 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But what Thou saidst in the beginning of the creation, “Let there be light, and there was light,” I do not unfitly understand of the spiritual creature; because there was even then a kind of life, which Thou mightest illuminate.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“But because Thy Spirit was “borne over the waters,” Thy mercy forsook not our misery, and Thou saidst, “Let there be light,” “Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“He did not say, Let darkness be made, and darkness was made: and yet He ordered it.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“Let us prove this in Genesis; see the works of God: God made light, and God made a division between light and darkness: the light He called day, and the darkness He called night.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“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“Again, “Let there be a firmament, and it was made:” if indeed He said, and it was not done, He was wearied.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3, 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“…when in that same book of Genesis we read, “God said, Let there be light, and there was light; God said, Let there be a firmament, and the firmament was made, and all the rest were made immediately at His word: to which also the psalm testifies, saying, “He spake, and they were made; He commanded, and they were…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3, 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For I think, Lord Jesus, nay I do not think, but believe and hold it sure, that Thou wast there when God said, “Let there be light, and there was light.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
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Ambrose of Milan
“They say that He was created.” — editor's note: The Arians asserted that the Son had no existence before He was begotten and that He was “formed out of nothing” or “out of things non-existent;” i.e. that He…
Read the whole comment“And God saw the light that it was good.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“He said, “Let there be light, and there was light,” for the effecting of the work is comprised in the commandment of God.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
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Basil the Great
“And God said, Let there be light.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
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John Chrysostom
“Tell me, “God said” (it is written), “Let there be light” ( Gen. i. 3 ): “the Father, saith one, commanded, and the Son obeyed”?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“This was akin to that voice that said, “Let the Heaven be, and it was.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
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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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Hippolytus of Rome
“And this, as these men assert, is that which has been stated by Moses: “Let there be light, and there was light.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 3.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And it is added, “And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 1–3.
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 3.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Catechism §298.
Cited together in Catechism §292.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.7.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Catechism §298.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Catechism §298.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.32.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.7.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
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