Genesis 1:8 (WEB)
God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second 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 · 10
Tertullian
“…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: Ver. 8.
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.
Read the whole comment
John Damascene
“But further, God called the firmament also heaven, which He commanded to be in the midst of the waters, setting it to divide the waters that are above the firmament from the waters that are below the firmament.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 8.
Read the whole comment
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“…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“For God called the firmament Heaven, as in Genesis hath been written.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 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 it may be that there was some custom in Hebrew literature, whereby that is called one book which yet consists of more than one, just as of many churches one church consisteth, and of many heavens one heaven,…and one land of many lands.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxi. 2; Gen. i. 8.
Read the whole comment
Basil the Great
““And God called the firmament heaven.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 8.
Read the whole comment
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…
Read the whole comment
Cross-references · 12
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in Confessions XII.8 and 1 other place.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.6.