Creating Things

ΕΡΩΤ Θ' Τίνι λέγει ὁ Θεός· Γενηθήτω φῶς, καὶ γενηθήτω στερέωμα; Οὐκ ἄλλῳ τινὶ κελεύει δημιουργεῖν, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὴ ὄντα καλεῖ· ἐνταῦθα δὲ πρόσταγμα τὸ βούλημα. Πάντα γὰρ, φησὶν, ὅσα ἠθέλησεν, ὁ Θεὸς ἐποίησεν. Εἰ δὲ καὶ φωνῇ τινι ἐχρήσατο, δῆλον ὡς οὐ τῶν ἀψύχων ἔνεκα στοιχείων, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἀοράτων χάριν δυνάμεων· ἵνα γνῶσιν, ὡς αὐτοῦ κελεύοντος τὰ μὴ ὄντα συνίσταται. Θεοδώρητος Ἐπίσκοπος Κύρρος, Εἰς Τὴν Γένεσιν Source: Migne PG 80.89c

Question 9 Did God say to something, 'Become light' and 'Become the firmament'? 1 God did not command that there be a creation from something into something else, but that that which was not be, for that was the wish of His command. It says: 'For everything that He wished, God made.' 2 If with His voice He created, it is clear that it was not on account of the mindless elements but by the grace of His unseen power, that it might be known that it is by His command that the things which are not subsist. Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Questions On Genesis 1 Genes 1.3, 6 2 Ps 113.11