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| Of the Darkness Upon the Deep, and of the Invisible and Formless Earth.
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Chapter III.—Of the Darkness Upon
the Deep, and of the Invisible and Formless Earth.
3. And truly this earth was invisible and
formless,1074
| 1074 Gen. i. 2,
as rendered by the Old Ver. from the LXX.: ἀόρατος καὶ ἀκατασκεύαστος. Kalisch in his
Commentary translates
תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ: “dreariness and emptiness.” | and there
was I know not what profundity of the deep upon which there was no
light,1075
because it
had no form. Therefore didst Thou command that it should be
written, that darkness was upon the face of the deep; what else was
it than the absence of light?1076
| 1076 Compare De Civ. Dei, xi. 9, 10. | For had there been light, where
should it have been save by being above all, showing itself aloft,
and enlightening? Darkness therefore was upon it, because the light
above was absent; as silence is there present where sound is not.
And what is it to have silence there, but not to have sound there?
Hast not Thou, O Lord, taught this soul which confesseth unto Thee?
Hast not Thou taught me, O Lord, that before Thou didst form and
separate this formless matter, there was nothing, neither colour,
nor figure, nor body, nor spirit? Yet not altogether nothing; there
was a certain formlessness without any shape.
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