By faith we understand that the worlds were exactly formed by the word of God, so that the visible objects were not made out of things which now appear.

For this they chuse to keep out of sight, that by the word of God the heavens were created of old, and the earth rising out of the water and subsisting amidst the water;

The host

who perverted the truth of God by falsehood, and worshipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen.

Breath

And so speaking, he breathed on them, and said, Receive the Holy Ghost:

General references

All things were made by him; and without him was not one thing made that was made.

hath not my hand made all these things?"