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| He Proceeds to the Last Verse, ‘All Things are Very Good,’—That Is, the Work Being Altogether Good.
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Chapter XXVIII.—He Proceeds to
the Last Verse, “All Things are Very Good,”—That Is, the Work
Being Altogether Good.
43. And Thou, O God, sawest everything that
Thou hadst made, and behold it was very good.1417
So we also see the same, and
behold all are very good. In each particular kind of Thy works,
when Thou hadst said, “Let them be made,” and they were made,
Thou sawest that it was good. Seven times have I counted it written
that Thou sawest that that which Thou madest was “good;” and
this is the eighth, that Thou sawest all things that Thou hadst
made, and behold they are not only good, but also “very good,”
as being now taken together. For individually they were only good,
but all taken together they were both good and very good. All
beautiful bodies also express this; for a body which consists of
members, all of which are beautiful, is by far more beautiful than
the several members individually are by whose well-ordered union
the whole is completed, though these members also be severally
beautiful.1418
| 1418 In his De Gen. con. Manich. i. 21, he
enlarges to the same effect on Gen. i. 31. |
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