Genesis 1:5 (WEB)
God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
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 · 14
John Damascene
“And God called the light day, but the darkness He called night.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 5.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The darkness therefore was interposed; but God called the darkness night.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Betwixt whom and us, in this as yet uncertain state of human knowledge, Thou only dividest, who provest our hearts and callest the light day, and the darkness night.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 5.
Read the whole comment“This is the distinction, He made the one and ordered it: but the other He made not, but yet He ordered this too.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 4, 5.
Read the whole comment““The evening was made, and the morning was made, one day.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 5.
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“For as the first days of all were reckoned from light to night, on account of the future fall of man; so these on account of the restoration of man, are reckoned from darkness to light.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 4, 5
Read the whole comment““God divided between the light and the darkness: the light He called Day, and the darkness He called Night.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 4, 5.
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Council in Trullo (692)
“At the end of the VIIIth Century the Synod of Frankfort declared in its xxj. canon, that “the Lord’s day should be kept from evening to evening.”” — editor's note: “The evening and the morning were the first day.”—Gen. i. 5.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Gen. i. 5 And it was evening, and it was morning, one day.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“After, then, he had formed the firmament over the nether world, “he both divided the darkness from the light, and called the light which was above the firmament day, and the darkness he called night.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 4, 5, 7.
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Basil the Great
““And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 5.
Read the whole comment“…seems to us to be in some sense an image of the age which we expect, wherefore, though it is the beginning of days, it is not called by Moses first, but one.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 5. Heb. LXX. Vulg. R.V. cf. p. 64.
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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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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.7.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.7.