Wie leicht ist es in Kanada, entgegen aller menschlicher Vernunft, ein “Mann” zu werden? Seht selbst.
Thus then, if it is said, In the beginning God created, it is to teach us that at the will of God the world arose in less than an instant, and it is to convey this meaning more clearly that other interpreters have said: God made summarily that is to… [more]
To this world at last it was necessary to add a new world, both a school and training place where the souls of men should be taught and a home for beings destined to be born and to die.
Basilius catena gen 1,1
