Genesis 2:3

• §337Paragraph 5 · Heaven and EarthRead at vatican.va

  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.

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  “The sabbath - the end of the work of the six days. the sacred text says that "on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done", that the "heavens and the earth were finished", and that God "rested" on this day and sanctified and blessed it.” — Catechism footnote: Gen 2:1-3.

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus VI.61Book VI

  “…all His works which He had made: and God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because on it He had ceased from all His works which He had begun to make;” and imagining the expression, “He ceased on the seventh day,” to be the same as this, “He rested on the seventh day,” he makes the remark: “After this,…” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. ii. 2, 3.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians II.6Discourse II

  “And that ‘In the beginning He made,’ from his saying ‘made,’ means ‘began to make,’ Moses himself shews by saying, after the completion of all things, ‘And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it He had rested from all His work which God began to make.’” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 3.

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Justin Martyr

• Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 19

  “Moreover, all those righteous men already mentioned, though they kept no Sabbaths, were pleasing to God; and after them Abraham with all his descendants until Moses, under whom your nation appeared unrighteous and ungrateful to God, making a…” — editor's note: [They did not Sabbatize; but Justin does not deny what is implied in many Scriptures, that they marked the week, and noted the seventh day. Gen. ii. 3, Gen.…

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 93

  “As a type of this, it is written of God, “God rested on the seventh day,” when He had made all His works very good.” — editor's note: Gen. i. and ii. 1–3.

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 17

  ““Now, on the subject of this rest Scripture is significant, and refrains not to speak, when it tells us how at the beginning of the world, and at the time when God made heaven and earth and all things which are in them, He worked during six days, and rested on the seventh day.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 1–3

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XXII.30Book XXII

  “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work which God began to make.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 2, 3.

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• Genesis 3:5

  Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.

• Genesis 8:10

  Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 19.

• Genesis 8:12

  Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 19.

• Leviticus 26:12

  Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.

• Deuteronomy 5:14

  Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.

• Psalm 19:1

  Cited together in Against Celsus VI.61.

• Psalm 46:10

  Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.

• Psalm 84:4

  Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.

• Psalm 102:25

  Cited together in Against Celsus VI.61.

• Ezekiel 20:12

  Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 19 and 1 other place.

• Acts 1:7

  Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.

• 1 Corinthians 15:28

  Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.