אליגוריות החוקים, ספר א ג׳Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis, Book I 3
א׳
1For God never leaves off making, but even as it is the property of fire to burn and of snow to chill, so it is the property of God to make: nay more so by far, inasmuch as He is to all besides the source of action.
ב׳
2[6] Excellently, moreover, does Moses say “caused to rest” not “rested”; for He causes to rest that which, though actually not in operation, is apparently making, but He Himself never ceases making. For this reason Moses adds after “He caused to rest” the words “from what He had begun.” For whereas things produced by human arts when finished stand still and remain as they are, the products of divine skill, when completed, begin again to move; for their endings are the beginnings of other things, as the end of day is the beginning of night, and the openings of a month and of a year must naturally be regarded as limits which close those which have elapsed:
ג׳
3[7] birth again is accomplished through other things decaying, and decay through fresh births, showing the truth of the saying:
ד׳
4Naught that is born doth ever die,
ה׳
5Its severed parts together fly,
ו׳
6And yield another shape.