Gênesis 1
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Gênesis 1:1
Por que isso acontece, primeiro o céu e depois a terra? O telhado do templo feito antes do pavimento? Deus não está sujeito às exigências da natureza nem às regras da técnica. Deus é o criador e mestre técnico da natureza, da arte e de tudo que é feito ou imaginado. - SERMÕES SOBRE GÊNESIS 1.3
Gênesis 1:1
Let us accept what is said with much gratitude, not overstepping the proper limit nor busying ourselves with matters beyond us. This is the besetting weakness of enemies of the truth, wishing as they do to assign every matter to their own reasoning and lacking the realization that it is beyond the capacity of human nature to plumb God's creation. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 2.5
Gênesis 1:1
Observe este autor notável, muito querido, e o dom particular que ele tinha. Quero dizer, enquanto todos os outros autores inspirados contavam o que aconteceria depois de muito tempo ou o que aconteceria imediatamente, este autor abençoado, nascido muitas gerações depois do evento, foi guiado pela divindade nas alturas e considerado digno de narrar o que havia sido criado pelo Senhor de todos desde o início. Conseqüentemente, ele começou com estas palavras: “No princípio Deus criou o céu e a terra”. Ele quase grita para todos nós e diz: "É por seres humanos que fui ensinado a pronunciar essas coisas? Foi aquele que trouxe o ser do nada que mexeu com minha língua ao narrá-las." Visto que, portanto, ouvimos essas palavras não como as palavras de Moisés, mas como as palavras do Deus de todas as coisas que vêm a nós através da língua de Moisés, então eu te imploro, vamos prestar atenção ao que é dito como distinto de nosso próprio raciocínio. - HOMÍLIAS SOBRE GÊNESIS 2.5
Gênesis 1:9-10
Have you seen, dear brother, how God, in a sense, stripped the earth, which was invisible and formless, and was covered by the waters as if they were veils, and showed us its face, after he had imposed an appropriate name on it as well? "And the gatherings of the waters he called seas." So the waters also got their name. In fact, as an excellent craftsman, who sets out to make with his art a certain vase, does not give it a name until he has completed it, so the good Lord does not impose names on the elements until he has put them in their proper place according to his command. Therefore after the earth had received its name and had reached its proper form, the gathered waters were called with their own name. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 5.10
Gênesis 1:11
And why doth He not make it of things that are not? Stopping the mouth of Marcion, and of Manichaeans, who alienate His creation from Him, and teaching by His very works, that even all the things that are seen are His works and creatures, and signifying that it is Himself who gives the fruits, who said at the beginning, "Let the earth put forth the herb of grass," and "Let the waters bring forth things moving with living souls." For this is not at all a less work than the other. For though those were made of things that are not, yet nevertheless were they of water; and it was no greater thing to produce fruits out of the earth, and moving things with life out of the water, than out of five loaves to make so many; and of fishes again, which was a sign that He was ruler both of the earth and of the sea. — Homily on the Gospel of Matthew 49
Gênesis 1:12
He created the sun on the fourth day lest you think it is the cause of the day. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 6.14
Gênesis 1:12
Hence Scripture shows you everything completed before the creation of this body [the sun] lest you attribute the production of the crops to it instead of to the Creator of all things. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 6.12
Gênesis 1:14-15
For that reason the blessed Moses, inspired by the divine Spirit, teaches us with great precision, lest we fall victim to the same things as they, instead of being able to know clearly both the sequence of created things and how each thing was created. You see, if God in his care for our salvation had not directed the tongue of the biblical author in this way, it would have been sufficient to say that God made heaven and earth, the sea and living things, and not add the order of the days nor what was created first and what later. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 7.10
Gênesis 1:24-25
It wasn't simply for our use that he produced all these things; it was also for our benefit in the sense that we might see the overflowing abundance of his creatures and be overwhelmed at the Creator's power, and be in a position to know that all these things were produced by a certain wisdom and ineffable love out of regard for the human being that was destined to come into being. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 7.13
Gênesis 1:26
To begin, it is worthwhile to ask why God did not say, when the heavens were created, "Let us make the heavens" but instead, "Let there be a heaven.… Let there be light," and similarly for each other aspect of creation. "Let us make" suggests deliberation, collaboration and conference with another person. So what is it whose pending creation is granted so great an honor? It is humanity, the greatest and most marvelous of living beings, and the creation most worthy of honor before God.… There is here this deliberation, collaboration and communion not because God needs advice—God forbid saying such a thing!—but so that the very impact of the language of our creation would show us honor. — SERMONS ON GENESIS 2.1
Gênesis 1:26
Some others base themselves on our arguments by asserting that God possesses an image in common with us, but they do not understand correctly what has been said. We did not speak about an image of being but about an image of command, as we will explain below. In fact, as a proof that divinity has no human form, listen to Paul's words: "But for a man it is not right to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man." This is why—he says—"she must wear a veil on her head." And in truth, in this passage he has called "image" this absence of difference of form with regard to God, and man is called image of God because God also possesses this figure: in their opinion, therefore, it should not be said that man only is the image of God but the woman as well. For man and woman have in common a single figure, character and resemblance. Why then is man called image of God, while the woman is not? Because Paul does not mean the image appearing in the form but the image concerning the command, which was given to man, not woman. Man in fact is subject to no creature, while woman is subject to man, according to God's words: "Your movement will be toward your husband, and he will rule you." This is why man is the image of God. He has no creature over him, and there is nobody over God: he rules on everything. Woman, on the other hand, is the glory of man, because she is subject to man. — SERMONS ON GENESIS 2.2
Gênesis 1:27
Consider when this happened. After their disobedience, after their loss of the garden, then it was that the practice of intercourse had its beginning. You see, before their disobedience they followed a life like that of the angels, and there was no mention of intercourse. How could there be when they were not subject to the needs of the body? So at the outset and from the beginning the practice of virginity was in force, but when through their indifference disobedience came on the scene and the ways of sin were opened, virginity took its leave for the reason that they had proved unworthy of such a degree of good things, and in its place the practice of intercourse took over for the future. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 18.12
Gênesis 1:28
So, after saying "male and female he made them" as though to bestow a blessing on each of them, he goes on, "God blessed them in the words, 'Increase and multiply, fill the earth and gain dominion over it, and have control of the fish of the sea.' " Behold the remarkable character of the blessing! I mean, those words, "increase and multiply and fill the earth," anyone could see are said of the brute beasts and the reptiles alike, whereas "gain dominion and have control" are directed to the man and woman. See the Lord's loving kindness: even before creating them, he makes them share in this control and bestows on them the blessing. "Have control" the text says, "of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven and all the cattle, the whole earth and all the reptiles creeping on the earth." Did you notice the definitive character of this authority? Did you notice all created things placed under the control of this particular being? So no longer entertain casual impressions of this rational being but rather realize the extent of the esteem and the Lord's magnanimity toward it and be amazed at his love beyond all telling. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 10.9
Gênesis 1:31
I mean, his all-powerful hand and boundless wisdom were not at a loss even to create everything in one day. Why say "one day"? Even in a brief moment. Yet it was not because of its utility to him that he produced anything that exists, since being self-sufficient he is in need of nothing. It was rather out of his loving kindness and goodness that he created everything; accordingly he created things in sequence and provided us with a clear instruction about created things through the tongue of the blessed author, so that we might learn about them precisely and not fall into the error of those led by purely human reasoning. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 3.12