Tertullian

“ Indeed, how full and complete [13] is the meaning of these words: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth; but [14] the earth was without form, and void,” [15] —the very same earth, no doubt, which God made, and of which the Scripture had been speaking at that very moment. [16] For that very “but” [17] is inserted into the narrative like a clasp, [18] (in its function) of a conjunctive particle, to connect the two sentences indissolubly together: “But the earth.” This word carries back the mind to that earth of which mention had just been made, and binds the sense thereunto. ”

“ Similarly it (afterwards) treats of man: “And God created man, in the image of God made He him.” [6] It next reveals how He made him: “And (the Lord) God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” ”