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This volume contains three works on the Book of Genesis: On Genesis: A Refutation of the Manichees, Unfinished Literal Commentary on Genesis, and the third and longest, The Literal Meaning of Genesis.

will of the creator. This means that when God said in his Word, Let light be made, and so on, what was made would abide in his good will, that is, would meet with his approval according to the measure of its kind. And thus it is right, because it met with God’s approval, with scripture saying, And light was made; and God saw the light that it was good (Gn 1:3–4). How the mystery of the Trinity is hinted at in these verses , 12. Just as at the very start of his beginning creation, which was mentioned
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