And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
Just as the trees, the vegetation, the animals, the birds and even humankind were old, so also were they young. They were old according to the appearance of their limbs and their substances, yet they were young because of the hour and moment of their creation. Likewise, the moon was both old and young. It was young, for it was but a moment old, but was also old, for it was full as it is on the fifteenth day. .
