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Scripture, Gen. ii, 4 where it is said : " These are 

 the generations of the heaven and the earth, when 

 they were created, in the day that the Lord God 

 made the heaven and the earth, and every plant of 

 the field, before it sprung up in the earth, and every 

 herb of the ground before it grew" 



" From this passage," continues the Angelic 

 Doctor, " two things are elicited : First, that all the 

 works of the six days were created in the day that 

 God made the heaven and earth and every plant of 

 the field; and, accordingly, that plants, which are 

 said to have been created on the third day, were pro- 

 duced at the same time that God created the heaven 

 and the earth. Secondly, that plants were then pro- 

 duced, not in act, but according to causal virtues 

 only ; in that the power of producing them was given 

 the earth fuerunt productce non in actu, sed secun- 

 dum rationes causales tantum, quia data fuit virtus 

 terra producendi illas. This is meant, when it is said 

 that it produced every plant of the field before it act- 

 ually sprang up in the earth by the work of adminis- 

 tration, and every herb of the earth before it actually 

 grew. Prior, therefore, to their actually rising over 

 the earth, they were made causally in the earth 

 Ante ergo quam actu orirentur super terram, facta 

 sunt causaliter in terra. This view is likewise con- 

 firmed by reason. For in those first days God 

 created the creature either in its cause or in its 

 origin, or in act, in the work from which He after- 

 wards rested. Nevertheless, He subsequently, until 

 now, works according to the administration of cre- 

 ated things by the work of propagation. But to 



