“Cum ex supra dictis constet, _nullam e rebus creatis prius altera factam esse_, sed res omnes factas uno eodemque mandato _simul_ extitisse.”--Oratio ii. Contra Arianos, n. 63. Edit. Bened. p. 418. New Edition, p. 528. Edit. Migne, Patr. Graecor. Cursus Completus, p. 275. (27.) SAINT EUCHERIUS.--P. 320. Speaking strictly we should rather say the author of a Commentary upon Genesis belonging to a very early period of the Church, ascribed by some to Saint Eucherius, and usually published with his works. This author says, no doubt, that God first, in the beginning, created the substance of all things, and afterward developed the various forms on successive days (Gen. ii. 4): but then he tells us expressly that the substance did not precede the forms by any priority of time, but only by priority of origin (Gen. i. 2). Thus his view coincides pretty nearly with that of Saint Augustine, whose words, indeed, he seems to borrow. “‘Terra autem erat inanis et vacua.’ Id est, adhuc informis erat ipsa materia: quia necdum ex ea coelum et terra, necdum omnia formata erant, quae formari restabant: haec enim materia, ex nihilo facta, praecessit tamen res ex se factas, _non quidem aeternitate vel tempore, sicut praecedit lignum arcam_; sed sola origine, _sicut praecedit vox verbum, vel sonus cantum_: nam ‘qui vivit in aeternum creavit omnia simul.’”--Edit. Migne, Patr. Latin Cursus Completus, vol. 50, p. 894. (28.) PROCOPIUS OF GAZA.--P. 320. We quote this writer on the authority of Perrerius, from whom the following passage is taken. “Idem censet hoc loco Procopius Gazæus: Mozen enim, inquit, in describendo mundi opificium, sex dierum distinctione usum esse docendi gratia ob tarditatem, videlicet, ruditatemque Judæorum, quibus hæc scribebat: qui quæ Deus _simul_ fecerat, ob tantam eorum multitudinem atque varietatem simul et indiscrete capere et comprehendere, ut erant angustissimis ingeniis nequaquam potuissent.”--In Genes., cap. 2, vers. 4, 5, 6, n. 179. (29.) ALBERTUS MAGNUS.--P. 320. “Videtur mihi Augustino consentiendum.”--Summa P. 1, Quæst. 12, art. 6. See Pianciani, Cosmogonia Naturale, p. 23. (30.) SAINT THOMAS.--P. 320.