Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.
Earth in the beginning was produced incompletely, as is clear from chapter 24.It was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep — Genesis 1:2.
That chaos was not eternal matter, but a created subject from which God on the following days brought forth distinct species.The Spirit of God was brooding upon the waters — Genesis 1:2 — preparing the matter for the Hexaemeron.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN, On the Hexaemeron or the works of the six days, follows.
Latin
Terra in principio producta fuit incompletè, ut liquet ex cap. 24. Erat inanis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssi — Gen. I.2. Chaos illud non fuit materia aeterna, sed creatum subjectum ex quo Deus sequentibus diebus distinctas species eduxit. Spiritus Dei incubabat aquis — Gen. I.2 — praeparans materiam ad Hexaemeron. CAPUT VIGESIMUM SEPTIMUM, De Hexaemero sive operibus sex dierum, sequitur.