Genesis 1:11
Douay-Rheims
And he said: Let the earth bring forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.
Basil of Caesarea
After the earth, rid of the weight of the water, had rested, the command had come to it to bring forth first the herbs, then the trees. And this we see still happening even at the present time. For the voice that was then heard and the first command became, as it were, a law of nature and remained in the earth, giving it the power to produce and bear fruit for all succeeding time.
Source details
A.D. 379 · on Gen 1:11 (HEXAEMERON 5.1)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.