Genesis 1:25
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et fecit Deus bestias terræ juxta species suas, et jumenta, et omne reptile terræ in genere suo. Et vidit Deus quod esset bonum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὰ [θηρία τῆς γῆς] κατὰ γένος καὶ τὰ κτ[ήνη κατὰ γέ]νος καὶ πάντα τὰ ἑρπ[ετὰ τῆς γῆς] κατὰ γένος αὐτῶν· καὶ ἴδεν ὁ θεὸς ὅτι καλά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּ֣עַשׂ אֱלֹהִים֩ אֶת חַיַּ֨ת הָאָ֜רֶץ לְמִינָ֗הּ וְאֶת הַבְּהֵמָה֙ לְמִינָ֔הּ וְאֵ֛ת כָּל רֶ֥מֶשׂ הָֽאֲדָמָ֖ה לְמִינֵ֑הוּ וַיַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים כִּי טֽוֹב
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book V, Chapter XV. Proofs of the
4. All the followers of Valentinus, therefore, lose their case, when they say that man was not fashioned out of this earth, but from a fluid and diffused substance. For, from the earth out of which the Lord formed eyes for that man, from the same earth it is evident that man was also fashioned at the beginning. For it were incompatible that the eyes should indeed be formed from one source and the rest of the body from another; as neither would it be compatible that one [being] fashioned the body, and another the eyes. But He, the very same who formed Adam at the beginning, with whom also the Father spake, [saying], “Let Us make man after Our image and likeness,” revealing Himself in these last times to men, formed visual organs ( visionem ) for him who had been blind [in that body which he had derived] from Adam. …
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. …