And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
And so, when it afterwards attains its perfection, it ceases to be accounted void, when God declares, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and according to its likeness, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself, after its kind." [Against Hermagenes 29]
