To Autolycus 2.17

On the sixth day, when God made the four-footed creatures, the wild beasts, and the creeping things of the land, he passed over their blessing in silence, reserving the blessing for the human being, whom he was about to make on the sixth day. At the same time the four-footed creatures and the wild beasts were made as a type of some people who do not know God, who are godless and set their minds on earthly things and do not repent. For those who turn from their lawless deeds and live righteously fly upward in soul like birds, setting their minds on things above and pleasing the will of God. But those who do not know God and are godless are like birds that have wings yet cannot fly up and reach the heights of the divine. So such people are called human beings, but they set their minds on what is low and earthly, weighed down by their sins. Wild beasts (θηρία) are so called from their becoming savage (θηριοῦσθαι). They were not made evil or venomous from the beginning, for nothing was made evil by God from the beginning, but all things were good, and very good; it was the sin of the human being that made them evil. When the human being transgressed, they transgressed with him. Just as, when the master of a house does well, the servants too necessarily live in good order, but when the master sins, the slaves sin with him, so it happened with the creatures of the human being: when he, their lord, sinned, his servants sinned with him. When, then, the human being returns again to his natural state and no longer does evil, they too will be restored to their original gentleness.