Genesis 1:9
Douay-Rheims
God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
John of Damascus
Now, the fact that Scripture speaks of one gathering does not mean that they were gathered together into one place, for notice that after this it says: "And the gathering together of the waters he called seas." Actually, the account meant that the waters were segregated by themselves apart from the earth. And so the waters were brought together into their gathering places and the dry land appeared.
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A.D. 749 · on Gen 1:9-10 (ORTHODOX FAITH 2.9)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.