And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
God commanded the waters to swarm with living beings and birds to fly above the earth. The text leaves silent which element produced them, but 'swarm' applies to all creatures that congregate in great numbers and move about together, from the greatest to the least.
AI summary
Commenting on Genesis 1:20-23
Creation advances toward perfection, each day producing nobler beings than the last. Fish and fowl both came from water on the fifth day, though their flesh differs; the power of the first Cause produces vastly different effects from the same source. The waters brought forth abundantly, insects and great whales alike.
AI summary
Commenting on Genesis 1:20-23
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. The sun now in the firmament, where it was fixed the day before, having gone round the earth, or the earth about that, in the space of twenty four hours; and according to Capellus this was the twenty second of April; or, as others, the fifth of September; and according to Bishop Usher the twenty seventh of October.