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But after this investigation of his assertions, as
if his object were to swell his book by many words, he repeats, in
different language, the same charges which we have examined a little
ago, saying: “By far the most silly thing is the
distribution of the creation of the world over certain days, before
days existed: for, as the heaven was not yet created, nor the
foundation of the earth yet laid,4585
nor the sun
yet revolving,4586
how could there be
days?” Now, what difference is there between these
words and the following: “Moreover, taking and looking at
these things from the beginning, would it not be absurd in the first
and greatest God to issue the command, Let this (first thing) come into
existence, and this second thing, and this (third); and after
accomplishing so much on the first day, to do so much more again on the
second, and third, and fourth, and fifth, and sixth?” We
answered to the best of our ability this objection to God’s
“commanding this first, second, and third thing
to be created,” when we
quoted the words, “He said, and it was done; He commanded, and
all things stood fast;”4587
remarking that the
immediate4588
| 4588 τὸν
προσεχῶς
δημιουργόν. | Creator, and, as it
were, very Maker4589
of the world was
the Word, the Son of God; while the Father of the Word, by commanding
His own Son—the Word—to create the world, is
primarily Creator. And with regard to the creation of the
light upon the first day, and of the firmament upon the second, and of
the gathering together of the waters that are under the heaven into
their several reservoirs4590
on the third (the
earth thus causing to sprout forth those (fruits) which are under the
control of nature alone4591
| 4591 τὰ ὑπὸ
μόνης φύσεως
διοικούμενα. | ), and of the
(great) lights and stars upon the fourth, and of aquatic4592
animals upon the fifth, and of land animals
and man upon the sixth, we have treated to the best of our ability in
our notes upon Genesis, as well as in the foregoing pages, when we
found fault with those who, taking the words in their apparent
signification, said that the time of six days was occupied in the
creation of the world, and quoted the words: “These are the
generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in
the day that the Lord God made the earth and
the heavens.”4593
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