“From what toil did God rest? For the creatures that came to be on the first day came to be by implication, except for the light, which came through his word. And the rest of the works that came to be afterward came to be through his word. What toil is there for us when we speak one word? So what toil could there have…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 1.32-33
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1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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— Genesis 2:1 —
2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.