Genesis 1:24-25

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Vulgate Text: Genesis 1:1-31 — Full Vulgate text quoted

  "24. And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so."

• Verse 24: Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature — Earth as material cause, not efficient; all species of perfect animals created on this day

  "24. LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE, — that is, living animals; it is a synecdoche."

• Verse 24: Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature — Venomous beasts were also created on this day with their natural antipathy

  "I say second, that consequently on this sixth day all venomous beasts, such as serpents, and those hostile to one another and carnivorous, such as the wolf and the sheep, were created"

• Verse 24: Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature — Tiny animals born from putrefaction were created potentially, in seminal principle

  "I say third, that tiny animals which are born from sweat, exhalation, or putrefaction, such as fleas, mice, and other little worms, were not created on this sixth day formally, but potentially"

• Verse 24: Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature — Tropologically, the work of six days signifies man's justification

  "Tropologically, the work of creation in six days signifies the work of man's justification."