Library Theodoret Questions on Exodus
Questions on Exodus 43: Why this was commanded on no other day
And why did he not command that this happen on another day?
One might say the same about another day as well: why ever did he choose this and not another? Yet this day had a reason able to persuade the harshness of the Jews—that the God of all created everything in six days, and on the seventh did nothing, but honored it with a blessing. For he also added that “in six days the Lord your God made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them; and he rested on the seventh day and sanctified it.”
Greek: Theodoret of Cyrus, Quaestiones in Octateuchum / Questions on Exodus (CPG 6200.02; cf. Fernández Marcos and Sáenz-Badillos; also PG 80, cols. 225–298). English: study translation for BWAB Library—not the copyrighted Robert C. Hill (CUA Press) translation. The full Questions on Exodus (72 questions) is hosted here.