{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6340","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: A further question asked by the curious concerns those tiny creatures, smaller even than mice and lizards, such as locusts, beetles, flies and even fleas. Were there not more of these in the ark than the number prescribed by God? Those who raise this difficulty must first be reminded that the words \"that creep on the earth\" imply that there was no need to preserve in the ark animals that live either in the water like fishes or on the water, as certain birds do. Second, the words \"male and female\" imply that there was no need to have in the ark such animals as are not born in the normal way but populate from putrid or inanimate matter. Or if they were in the ark, they could have been there as they are in our houses and not in any definite number. On the other hand, if the sacred mystery that was there being enacted demanded down to the last number of nonmarine animals the perfect accord of symbolic figure and historical fact, then God took care of this in his own way and did not leave it to Noah or his family.<br/><i>— City of God 15.27</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: ABOUT THE EATING OF ANIMALS THAT ENTERED INTO THE ARK. — God said that animals shall not only live on the Ark, but still feed in the Ark, so God ordered Noah to take all kinds of food for him and all the animals that had to accompany him. There arises the question of how he could feed the lions or eagles, which often eat meat, and whether Noah brought in the Ark other animals besides those listed there to serve as food to the others; or if he introduced some other things besides meat that seems more acceptable, that would also serve as suitable for such animal food, or whether this measure was taken by him as a man of foresight or by divine inspiration. [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 6 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"726acb7984e1e1083687ce65c608d4fc4d3d82abc7c2680d57dc934f24104c1a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6340,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"920c16958674abaa618ae01e9168072932a9632165a1ad9e9e18e7950b6408f8","translator":null,"work":null}