accounts of creation in the OT. In Psalm 33:6, creation is said to be “by the word of the LORD … and by the breath of his mouth.” In Proverbs 8:22ff., a passage much used and abused in the early-church debates, Wisdom is personified and eulogized as sharing with the Lord in the creation of the heavens and the earth. Job acknowledges that the Spirit of God made him (Job 33:4; cf. 26:13), and the psalmist also talks of God’s Spirit as Creator (Ps. 104:30). It is impossible to think of creation (this
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