Genesis 1:23
And the evening and morning were the fifth day.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et factum est vespere et mane, dies quintus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγέ]νετο ἑσπέρα καὶ ἐγ[ένετο πρωί], ἡμέρα πέμπτη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַֽיְהִי עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם חֲמִישִֽׁי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On the Holy Trinity, God Alone Creates Those Things Which are Changed by Magic Art
13. Yet it is not on this account to be thought that the matter of visible things is subservient to the bidding of those wicked angels; but rather to that of God, by whom this power is given, just so far as He, who is unchangeable, determines in His lofty and spiritual abode to give it. For water and fire and earth are subservient even to wicked men, who are condemned to the mines, in order that they may do therewith what they will, but only so far as is permitted. Nor, in truth, are those evil angels to be called creators, because by their means the magicians, withstanding the servant of God, made frogs and serpents; for it was not they who created them. But, in truth, some hidden seeds of all things that are born corporeally and visibly, are concealed in the corporeal elements of this world. …