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 1 3     |          created the heaven and the earth;" and as long as He continued
 2 4     |             whether in heaven or in earth, yet to us there is but
 3 18    |      rounded me; before He made the earth, before the mountains were
 4 19    |             made the heaven and the earth, they will construe as if
 5 19    |      inasmuch as the heaven and the earth are the principal works
 6 19    |             made the heaven and the earth;" just as it would have
 7 19    |             made the heaven and the earth," if God had created these
 8 19    |             made the heaven and the earth.~
 9 20    |             both the heaven and the earth in principio that is to
10 20    |             made the heaven and the earth "and the Word was with God,
11 22    |          which it is made. "Let the earth," says He, "bring forth
12 22    |              And it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and
13 22    |         fowl that may fly above the earth through the firmament of
14 22    |               And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
15 22    |            thing, and beasts of the earth after their kind." If therefore
16 22    |             both the heaven and the earth, by indicating to us what
17 22    |             made the heaven and the earth." I revere the fulness of
18 23    |             it is written: "And the earth was without form, and void."
19 23    |            For he resolves the word earth into Matter, because that
20 23    |            is made out of it is the earth. And to the word was he
21 24    |                               XXIV. EARTH DOES NOT MEAN MATTER AS
22 24    |            read only of one of them Earth; the other, namely Matter,
23 24    |             Scripture, how the term earth can be applied to it, which
24 24    |       acquired the further sense of Earth, in order that I may be
25 24    |             that I may be sure that Earth is one and the same name
26 24    |         same object has the surname Earth, in order that he may claim
27 25    |          which it is said, "And the earth was without form, and void."
28 25    |             the two earths the name earth is best suited, I shall
29 25    |            I shall be told that the earth which was made derived the
30 25    |          right and proper that this earth which God made should have
31 25    |        heretics, that while the one earth was indeed "without form,
32 25    |              and therefore that the earth which was created was a
33 25    |     declined from its condition. If earth was the proper name of the (
34 25    |           unfit to bear the name of earth, seeing that that name belongs
35 25    |    undergone creation, that is, our earth, had with its original a
36 25    |          from the condition of that earth, which is Matter, has come
37 25    |          Matter, has come over this earth of ours, is plain even from
38 25    |        evils. Lastly, if the one is Earth because the other is, why
39 25    |            to have had the names of Earth and Matter, since they all
40 25    |            touching the designation Earth, by which he will have it
41 26    |            but one God, and but one earth too, which in the beginning
42 26    |           to set forth what sort of earth it was. In like manner with
43 26    |          created the heaven and the earth; but the earth was without
44 26    |       heaven and the earth; but the earth was without form, and void,"
45 26    |            and void," the very same earth, no doubt, which God made,
46 26    |     indissolubly together: "But the earth." This word carries back
47 26    |       carries back the mind to that earth of which mention had just
48 26    |          that the passage, "But the earth was without form, and void,"
49 26    |            been meant for any other earth.~
50 27    |            to be sure, whether "the earth was," which was made! The
51 28    |          condition agreed with this earth of ours, but that it did
52 28    |          accident of beginning. The earth, on the contrary, which
53 29    |         their teeming monsters. The earth itself He did not endow
54 29    |        purport does David say: "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness
55 29    |             God called the dry land Earth," not Matter. And so, when
56 29    |         when God declares, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
57 29    |          its kind." Again: "Let the earth bring forth the living creature
58 29    |           things, and beasts of the earth, after their kind." Thus
59 29    |        however, is nowhere, but the Earth is here, confessed to my
60 29    |             the God that formed the earth, and made it." The same
61 29    |              and made it." The same earth for certain did He form,
62 29    |        proofs arise to us that this earth which we inhabit is the
63 29    |         that the sentence, "Now the earth was without form, and void,"
64 29    |         void," applies to that same earth which God mentioned separately
65 31    |           the heaven only, and this earth of yours, that God made
66 31    |             that the heaven and the earth, as the very highest works
67 31    | appurtenances of the heaven and the earth, made then in the beginning,
68 31    |           the darkness underlay the earth. Since the deep was under
69 31    |        Since the deep was under the earth, and the darkness was over
70 31    |             the deep were under the earth. Below the heaven, too,
71 31    |            the waters were over the earth, which they covered, whilst
72 31    |          waters were alike over the earth. Now that which is over
73 31    |          Now that which is over the earth, is of course under the
74 31    |             heaven. And even as the earth brooded over the deep and
75 31    |       members of the heaven and the earth. For in the bodies the limbs
76 31    |     contained in the heaven and the earth.~
77 32    |     formation of the heaven and the earth, as if (they were) the sole
78 32    |           with the formation of the earth, which was wafted over the
79 32    |          must follow, then, that as earth consisted of earth, so also
80 32    |          that as earth consisted of earth, so also depth consisted
81 34    |           to nothing along with the earth itself, with which it was
82 34    |          the beginning. "Heaven and earth shall pass away," says He. "
83 34    |          first heaven and the first earth passed away," "and there
84 34    |        riseth to shake terribly the earth." "But I will dry up the
85 45conc|             out the heaven, and the earth with a span." Do not be
86 45conc|            says, "God hath made the earth by His power, He hath established
87 45conc|           of that God who "made the earth by His power, who established