Genesis 1:6 (WEB)
God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
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 · 20
Tertullian
“And God said, “Let there be a firmament,…and God made the firmament;” and God also said, “Let there be lights (in the firmament); and so God made a greater and a lesser light.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“For the suspension of the celestial firmament in the midst He caused by “dividing the waters;” the suspension of “the dry land” He accomplished by “separating the waters.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6, 7, 8.
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John Damascene
“…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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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For very wonderful is this corporeal heaven, of which firmament, between water and water, the second day after the creation of light, Thou saidst, Let it be made, and it was made.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6–8.
Read the whole comment“Or who but Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us in Thy divine Scripture?” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6.
Read the whole comment“…day of the week, that is, the day after the first which we call the Lord’s day, which also is called the second week-day, was made the firmament of Heaven.…The second day of the week then we ought not to understand but of the Church of Christ: but the Church of Christ in the Saints, the Church of Christ in those…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6–8.
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 inasmuch as it is said, “Let there be a firmament,” and there was a firmament; He is understood to have created it by His Word; but when He said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness;” He seemeth to have created him by His hand.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6.
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“…the angelic hosts are somehow referred to under the name of waters, and that this is what is meant by “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters:” that the waters above should be understood of the angels, and those below either of the visible waters, or of the multitude of bad angels, or of the nations…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6.
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.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Gen. i. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…that below the firmament of the wicked creation, in which earthly and animal men are washed; and there is life-giving water, (that) above the firmament, of the Good One, in which spiritual (and) living men are washed; and in this Elohim washed Himself. and having washed did not repent.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6, 7.
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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. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“God commanded that the heavens should come into existence, and it was done; He determined that the earth should be created, and it was created.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6 ff.
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Basil the Great
“And God said “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“And this word of Christ is like that word which said, “Let there be a firmament.” [Gen 1:6] and it was made; so here, “And her daughter was made whole from that hour.”” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“And it was so, and God made the firmament and God divided the water through the midst.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6, 7.
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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 · 15
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in The City of God XI.34.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Confessions XII.8.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 15:21–28 (8) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 15:21–28 (8) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 15:21–28 (8) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 2.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.