1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Sirach 18:1

He that liveth for ever, *created all things together. God only shall be justified, and he remaineth an invincible king for ever.

Genesis 1:1.

Together, as to their substance, though they received different forms successively, as Moses relates. Both writers are divinely inspired. (St. Augustine, de Gen. ad Lit. 4:33.) (Worthington) (St. Thomas Aquinas, 1:p. 974. a. 2.) --- Some suppose that all things were really formed in an instant, and that the order described by Moses is only as we should conceive it. (Cajetan) --- This passage only means that God alone was the creator both of the sun and of man, and without him nothing was made, (John i., and Psalm 32:15.) as he gave existence to all, koine, "in common." (Calmet) --- And he. Greek, "and there is no other besides him who steers the world with the palm of his hand. And all things obey his will; for he is king of all, in his might, separating what is holy among them from the profane. (2.) He has enabled no one to," etc. (Haydock)