The Hexaemeron or Creation-Week (8): The Creation of Man (1): How he was created

Scriptural references The direct and detailed references in holy writ to the creation of man we find, of course, in the account of creation in the book of Genesis. In Genesis 1:26-28 we read: "And 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 all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the image of...