Genesis 1:9 (WEB)
God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” 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 · 8
Tertullian
“Then it forthwith becomes “visible,” God saying, “Let the water be gathered together into one mass, and let the dry land appear.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 9.
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John Damascene
“Next, God bade the waters be gathered together into one mass.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But if, then, they received that beauty when God said, Let the water which is under the firmament be gathered together, so that the gathering be the very formation, what will be answered concerning the waters which are above the firmament, because if formless they would not have…” — editor's note: Gen. i. 9.
Read the whole comment“Who, O Lord, unless Thou, saidst, Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, which “thirsteth after Thee”?” — editor's note: Gen. i. 9. In his comment on Psalm lxiv. 6 (sec. 9), he interprets “the sea,” allegorically, of the wicked world. Hence were the disciples called “fishers of…
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.
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Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §30Doubtful Fragments on the Pentateuch
“And that same voice, in sooth, which had said of old, “Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear,” gave permission to the fountain of waters and the floods of the seas to break forth of their own accord, and brought out the waters.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 9.
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Basil the Great
“And the water which was under the heaven gathered together unto one place; “And God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters called He seas.”” — editor's note: Gen. i. 9, 10.
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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 · 17
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.9.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §30.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.17.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 4.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 4.
Cited together in Confessions XII.22.
Cited together in Confessions XII.22.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 29.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 4.
Cited together in Confessions XII.22.