Chapter 27: On the six days of creation
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. On the Hexaemeron, or the works of the six days.
The Hexaemeron is the third act of creation, by which through the Word (And God said) God completed, in a threefold ordering across twice three days, every part of that earth which the Father had produced as a threefold unity in the beginning and which the Holy Spirit had brooded over in the first night: (1) on the first day light from darkness; (2) our visible heavens and the air from the waters; (3) dry land and seas, herbs and trees from the dry land; (4) for the distinction and government of darkness and light, or of day and night, and for the illumination of this our earth, other luminaries — namely the stars, the sun, and the moon — placed in the watery heaven; (5) from the marine waters under the expanse, fishes and birds that would multiply in those waters, in the air, and on the earth; (6) finally from our germinating earth animals, and us human beings, and besides our multiplication together with fishes and birds, food of herbs for every living soul and of trees especially for us.
In this third act of creation it is especially worth noting that the works of the fourth day answer the work of the first, those of the fifth the work of the second, and those of the sixth the work of the third, as autopsy and comparison of the Mosaic text clearly show from Genesis 1:3 to the end of the chapter.
Latin
CAPUT VIGESIMUM SEPTIMUM, De Hexaëmero sive operibus sex dierum. Hexaëmeron est tertius creationis actus, quo λόγῳ (Vajomer Elohim) quamlibet partem terrae illius trium unius in principio a Patre productae et in prima nocte incubatione Spiritus Sancti tripartite ita bis trinis diebus complevit, ut 1. die lucem a tenebris, 2. aspectabiles caelos nostros et aerem ex aquis, 3. aridam et maria, herbas et arbores ex arida provocarit, 4. ad harum tenebrarum lucisque sive diei noctisque distinctionem et gubernationem hujusque terrae nostrae illuminationem alia luminaria — astra videlicet, solem, lunam, stellas — in caelo aqueo collocaverit, 5. ex aquis marinis infra expansum pisces et aves, qui sese in his aquis marinis, aere et terra multiplicarent, eduxerit, 6. denique e terra nostra germinante animalia nosque homines crearit et praeter multiplicationem nostram juxta cum piscibus et avibus cibum herbarum omni animae viventi et arborum nobis praecipue procuraverit. In hoc tertio creationis actu cumprimis dignum observatu est, quod operi primi diei respondeant opera quarti, operi secundi diei opera quinti, et operi tertii diei opera sexti, ut αὐτοψία et collatio textus Mosaici clare ostendit Gen. I.3 ad finem capitis.