Orthodox Forge

The Days of Creation

The Fifth Day

The sea and the air are filled with life. Scroll to watch the waters bring it forth.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth the creeping things that have life, and fowl flying over the earth in the firmament of heaven: and it was so. And God created great whales, and every living creature that creepeth, which the waters brought forth after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Genesis 1:20-23

At first it was said, “Let the waters bring forth the creeping things that have life” (Gen. i. 20, LXX.); but from the time that the Lord entered the streams of Jordan, the water no longer gives forth the “creeping thing that hath life,” but reasonable and Spirit-bearing souls

John Chrysostom, Homilies on John XXVI

Scripture as St Theophilus of Antioch sets it down in To Autolycus. Both texts are from the Forge library.