Genesis 9:3 (WEB)
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Catechism · 2
The Seventh Commandment
“God entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in his own image.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 2:19-20; 9:1-4.
In the Old Testament
Prayer is lived in the first place beginning with the realities of creation. the first nine chapters of Genesis describe this relationship with God as an offering of the first-born of Abel's flock, as the invocation of the divine name at the time of Enosh, and as "walking with God.
Fathers and councils · 8
Tertullian
“…after the flood He enlarged the grant: “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; behold, as the green herb have I given you all these things,”—where He has regard rather to the body than to the soul, although it be in the interest of the soul also.” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 3.
Read the whole comment“…‘They shall be to you for food: just like grassy vegetables have I given (them) you universally: but flesh in the blood of its own soul shall ye not eat.’” — editor's note: See Gen. ix. 2–5 (in LXX.).
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Jerome
“Moreover, free permission was given to eat flesh, “Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.”” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 3.
Read the whole comment“…not remain in them because they were flesh, He by the deluge passed sentence on the works of the flesh, and, taking note of the extreme greediness of men,gave them liberty to eat flesh: so that while understanding that all things were lawful for them, they might not greatly desire that which was allowed, lest…” — editor's note: Gen. viii. 21; ix. 3.
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John Damascene
“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, for his blood his own shall be shed, for in the image of God made I man.” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 3, 4, 5, 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“I know that permission was granted unto Noah to eat every kind of flesh that was good for food; that Elias was fed with flesh; that John, endued with a wonderful abstinence, was not polluted by the living creatures (that is, the locusts ) which he fed on.” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 3.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.16On the Making of Man
“…vegetative life, for the use of man, to be for those who partake of it instead of herbs:—for He says, “Ye shall eat all kinds of flesh even as the green herb;” for the perceptive energy seems to have but a slight advantage over that which is nourished and grows without it.” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. ix. 3. The quotation, except the last few words, is not verbally from the LXX.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For God, when He created man, said, “All things shall be to you for meat.”” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 2, 3.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 4.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 38.
Cited together in Catechism §2417.
Cited together in Catechism §2417.