창세기 1:31의 제2성전 문헌

[42] For we read “God saw all things that He had made” (Gen. 1:31). This does not just mean that He set His eyes on each of them, but that He had insight and knowledge and apprehension of the things which He had made. It follows then that to give teaching and guidance on each several thing, in fact to “shew” them, to the ignorant is proper only for the One who knows, seeing that He has not, as a man has, been profited by science and its lore, but is acknowledged to be Himself the Source and Fountain-head of science and knowledge in all their forms.

[135] Accordingly Moses does right well in representing Him as both the Father of the universe and Overseer of the things created, where he says: “God saw all things which He had made, and lo! they were fair exceedingly” (Gen. 1:31): for it was not possible for anyone perfectly to see the things which had been formed save their Maker.

[159] But with God no kind of material is held in honour, and therefore He bestowed upon them all the same art, and in equal measure. And so in the holy Scriptures we read, “God saw all things which He had made and behold, they were very good” (Gen. 1:31), and things which receive the same praise must be of equal honour in the eyes of the praiser.