And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
The earth brings forth living creatures, yet how can a dead element produce life? This is as great a miracle as creation from nothing itself. Moses marks each kind as stable and distinct so that individuals might multiply according to their species; blessing is virtually present here, though not repeated word for word as on the fifth day.
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God did not hand off His creative power to the earth itself, as if dirt had any such virtue; He commanded that these creatures come into being according to His design. The diversity He made, tame and wild, herbivorous and carnivorous, the harmless and the ravenous, shows His manifold wisdom displayed in a single day's work.
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Commenting on Genesis 1:24-25
Three classes rise on the sixth day: cattle, fit for labor and tamed by man; wild beasts, whose ravenous natures were then held in check; and creeping things in every form, from the huge reptile down to the insignificant caterpillar.
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