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The fact that it wasn't said of the seventh day as it was for the other days, "And there was evening, and there was morning," distinctly indicates the completion to happen in it before it's finished, as the fathers declare, especially St. Clement, Irenaeus, and Justin the martyr and philosopher. They, with great wisdom, comment on the number six of the sixth day, asserting that the intelligent soul of man and his five senses were the six works of the sixth day. Hence, after discussing the number six at length, he states that everything created by God is divided into six categories: intelligent and immortal beings like angels; reasonable and mortal beings like humans; sensitive and irrational beings like cattle, birds, and fish; beings that can move but are insensible, like the winds, clouds, waters, and stars; entities that grow but are immovable, like trees; and insensible and immovable entities like mountains, the earth, and similar things. For all of God's creatures, in heaven and on earth, fit into one of these categories and are defined by them.