He who lives forever created the whole universe.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Together, as to their substance, though they received different forms successively, as Moses relates. Both writers are divinely inspired. Saint Augustine de Gen. ad Lit. iv. 33. Worthington. Saint Thomas Aquinas i. p. 974. a. 2.—Some suppose that all things were really formed in an instant, and that the order described by Moses is only as we should conceive it. Cajet.—This passage only means that God alone was the creator both of the sun and of man, and without him nothing was made, (John 1. Psalms 32:15) as he gave existence to all, κοινη, “in common.” Calmet.—And he. Greek “and there is no other besides him who steers the world with the palm of his hand. And all things obey his will;; for he is king of all, in his might, separating what is holy among them from the profane. (2.) He has enabled no one to,” and so forth Bible.