Genesis 1:24
Douay-Rheims
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 done.
John Chrysostom
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.
Source details
A.D. 407 · on Gen 1:24-25 (HOMILIES ON GENESIS 7.13)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.