Commentary on Genesis through Ruth · §1 · Didymus the Blind

The lights of the fourth day

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Chapter 1, verse 14. And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the heaven for the purpose of the earth, to divide between the day and between the night' (Genesis 1:14). Didymus. Therefore also the lights, having come into being on the fourth day, because of the word concerning them, are said to have come into being since they are greater. For the four, being in power ten, is honorable; for ones, twos, threes, and fours joined together, they make the ten; for through all Scripture, the ten...

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ΚΕΦ. Αʹ, στ. ιδʹ. Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς, Γενηθήτωσαν φωστῆρες ἐν τῷ στερεώματι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ εἰς φαῦσιν τῆς γῆς, τοῦ διαχωρίζειν ἀνὰ μέσον τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῆς νυκτός. ∆ιδύμου. Ὅθεν καὶ οἱ φωστῆρες τῇ τετάρτῃ ἡμέρᾳ γενόμενοι, διὰ τὸν περὶ αὐτοὺς λόγον, ἅτε μείζους ὄντες ἐν ταύτῃ λέγονται γεγενῆσθαι. Ἡ γὰρ τετρὰς, δυνάμει οὖσα δεκὰς, τιμία ὑπάρχει· μονὰς γὰρ, καὶ δυὰς, καὶ τριὰς, καὶ τετρὰς, ἀλλήλοις συντεθεῖσαι τὴν δεκάδα ποιοῦσι· διὰ πάσης γὰρ τῆς Γραφῆς ἡ δεκὰς

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