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
When the earth heard, "Let it bring forth vegetation and the fruit trees," it did not produce plants that it had hidden in it; nor did it send up to the surface the palm or the oak or the cypress that had been hidden somewhere down below in its womb. On the contrary, it is the divine Word that is the origin of things made.
Source details
A.D. 379 · on Gen 1:11 (HEXAEMERON 8.1)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.