Genesis 1:30

• §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.

Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Widows Chapter 1

  “But we turning aside the warnings of a general utterance to our private advantage, God says: “Every tree which has in it the fruit of a tree yielding seed shall be to you for meat, and to every beast, and to every bird, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 29, 30.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XIII.19Book XIII

  ““Learn to do well; judge the fatherless; plead for the widow,” that the earth may bring forth the green herb for meat, and the tree bearing fruit; and come let us reason together, saith the Lord, that there may be lights in the firmament of heaven, and that they may shine upon the earth.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 11, 30.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XIII.25Book XIII

  “Nor to us only, but to all the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and to all creeping things; but unto the fishes, and great whales, Thou hast not given these things.” — editor's note: Ibid. ver. 30.

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• 1 Kings 17:9

  Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 1.

• Psalm 19:4

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.

• Psalm 116:11

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.

• Luke 1:26

  Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 1.

• Luke 1:27

  Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 1.

• John 8:44

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.

• Romans 3:4

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.

• Romans 12:1

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.

• 1 Corinthians 7:34

  Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 1.

• 1 Corinthians 7:39

  Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 1.

• 1 Corinthians 7:40

  Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 1.

• 2 Corinthians 11:9

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.

• 2 Timothy 1:16

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.

• 2 Timothy 4:16

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.

• 1 Peter 2:2

  Cited together in Confessions XIII.25.