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Basil the Great

Hexaemeron

Translated by Blomfield Jackson

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(English) · Translated by Blomfield Jackson

Contents 10 sections

  1. Introduction.
  2. In the Beginning God made the Heaven and the Earth.
  3. “The Earth was Invisible and Unfinished.”
  4. On the Firmament.
  5. Upon the gathering together of the waters.
  6. The Germination of the Earth.
  7. The creation of luminous bodies.
  8. The creation of moving creatures.
  9. The creation of fowl and water animals.
  10. The creation of terrestrial animals.

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