133. But whence have they got such ideas but
out of the holy Scriptures? For Moses wrote that God said:
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.” Gen. i. 26. And David
said: “Thou hast put all things under his feet; all sheep
and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and
the fishes of the sea.” Ps. viii. 7, 8. So these
philosophers have learnt from our writings that all things were made
subject to man, and, therefore, they think that all things were
produced also for man’s sake.