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Chapter XII.—From the Formless
Earth God Created Another Heaven and a Visible and Formed
Earth.
15. Which things considered as much as Thou
givest, O my God, as much as Thou excitest me to “knock,” and
as much as Thou openest unto me when I knock,1099
two things I find which Thou hast
made, not within the compass of time, since neither is co-eternal
with Thee. One, which is so formed that, without any failing of
contemplation, without any interval of change, although changeable,
yet not changed, it may fully enjoy Thy eternity and
unchangeableness; the other, which was so formless, that it had not
that by which it could be changed from one form into another,
either of motion or of repose, whereby it might be subject unto
time. But this Thou didst not leave to be formless, since before
all days, in the beginning Thou createdst heaven and earth,—these
two things of which I spoke. But the earth was invisible and
without form, and darkness was upon the deep.1100
By which words its shapelessness
is conveyed unto us, that by degrees those minds may be drawn on
which cannot wholly conceive the privation of all form without
coming to nothing,—whence another heaven might be created, and
another earth visible and well-formed, and water beautifully
ordered, and whatever besides is, in the formation of this world,
recorded to have been, not without days, created; because such
things are so that in them the vicissitudes of times may take
place, on account of the appointed changes of motions and of
forms.1101
| 1101 See end of sec. 40, below. |
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