I beseech thee, my son, look upon heaven and earth, and all that is in them: and consider that God made them out of nothing, and mankind also:

1 witness

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900

1849

A.D.

George Leo Haydock Catholic

1774–1849

“Nothing, not out of pre-existent and eternal matter. (St. Augustine, Nat. boni xxvi.) (Romans iv. 17.) — So God can reduce all to nothing, chap. viii. 18.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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