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Roman Catechism
“Of All Things Visible and Invisible”
What we have said, then, of the creation of the universe is to be understood as conveyed by the words heaven and earth, and is thus briefly set forth by the Prophet: Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fullness thereof thou hast founded.63 Still more briefly the Fathers of the Council of Nice expressed this truth by adding in their Creed these words: “of all things visible and invisible.” Whatever exists in the universe, whatever we confess to have been created by God, either falls under the senses and is included in the word visible, or is an object of mental perception and intelligence and is expressed by the word invisible.
63. Ps 88:12