Genesis 1:7 (WEB)
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
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 · 18
Tertullian
“…it then goes on to introduce its arrangement; how that God both separated “the water which was below the firmament from that which was above the firmament,” and called the firmament heaven,—the very thing He had created in the beginning.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 7.
Read the whole comment“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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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“For “there is no speech, nor language, where their voice is not heard;” seeing their sound “hath gone through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world,” because Thou, O Lord, hast multiplied these things by blessing.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 3, 4. The word “sound” in this verse (as given in the LXX. and Vulg.), is in the Hebrew קַוָּם, which is rightly rendered in the Authorized Version a…
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“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.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Gen. i. 6, 7.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“This, he says, is “the water that is above the firmament,” concerning which, he says, the Saviour has declared, “If thou knewest who it is that asks, thou wouldst have asked from Him, and He would have given you to drink living, bubbling water.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 7.
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.
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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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.
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Basil the Great
“And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 6, 7.
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Jerome
“Must not every one reject and despise such special pleading as that by which Origen says of the waters that are above the firmament that they are not waters, but heroic beings of angelic power, and again of the waters that are over the earth—that is, below the firmament—that they are…” — editor's note: In his note on Gen. i. 7.
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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 · 13
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 26.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Confessions XII.8.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in On Baptism Chapter 2.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.20.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.