On Genesis

Didymus the Blind (313–398)

Didymus the Blind on Genesis

Text from catholiclibrary.org (Migne, PG - public domain). [ Source 2 ]

There's a much better scholarly translation for purchase in "The Fathers of the Church Series", translated by Robert Charles Hill, published in 2016. [ Link ]

On Genesis

1a i, 1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ... of God are made visible and invisible, indicating the visible bodies, and the invisible non-bodily and intellectual things. ... especially in the book ... previously indicated ... so that the cause of the universe and the universe itself may be ... they were Egyptians, from whom the Hebrews learned ... they stayed with them for four hundred and thirty years. ... when the Law ... of the beginning ... necessary, therefore, to teach that ... because even from the creation of the world ... God can be understood and made manifest ... as it is said that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; for the visible creation is contained by these, with the bodies of the earth and the animals and plants and waters, and the quantity of the stars in the heavens. Therefore, the earth is understood as containing all the animals and plants and waters…

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