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tut est. Et infra: Sex enim diebus fecit Dominus caelum et 
terram et mare et omnia que in eis sunt, et idem repetitur in 
cap. 31. In quibus locis sermonis proprietas colligi potest tum 
ex equiparatione, nam cum dicitur: sex diebus operabis, pro- 
priissimé intelligitur: tum quia non est verisimile, potuisse 
populum intelligere verba illa in alio sensu, et @ contrario in- 
ceredibile est, Deum in suis preceptis tradendis illis verbis ad 
populum fuisse loquutum, quibus deciperetur, falsum sensum 
concipiendo, si Deus non per sex veros dies opera sua fecisset.” 
These passages leave no doubt that this great 
doctor of the Catholic Church, of unchallenged 
authority and .unspotted orthodoxy, not only 
‘declares it to be Catholic doctrine that the work 
of creation took place in the space of six natural 
days ; but that he warmly repudiates, as inconsist- 
ent with our knowledge of the Divine attributes, 
the supposition that the language which Catholic 
faith requires the believer to hold that God 
inspired, was used in any other sense than that 
which He knew it would convey to the minds of 
those to whom it was addressed. 
And I think that in this repudiation Father 
Suarez will have the sympathy of every man of 
common uprightness, to whom it is certainly 
“incredible” that the Almighty should have acted 
in a manner which He would esteem dishonest 
and base in a man. 
But the belief that the universe was created in 
six natural days is hopelessly inconsistent with 
the doctrine of evolution, in so far as it applies to 
the stars and planetary bodies; and it can be 
