On the Doctrine of Man

Quotations from various writings and sources. The Creation of Man Here Moses returns to the work of the sixth day and shows whence man, the owner and cultivator of the earth, came, namely, that God formed him out of the ground, as the potter with his hand forms the vessel out of clay. Here He did not say, as of the other creatures: "Let Us make man," in order to set forth the excellency of the human race and to make manifest the peculiar counsel of God according to which He created man,...