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  CONFESSIONS - BOOK XII - CHAPTER XXI
  by St. Augustine
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30. Again, regarding the interpretation of the following words, one man
selects for himself, from all the various truths, the interpretation
that \"the earth was invisible and unformed and darkness was over the
abyss\" means, \"That corporeal entity which God made was as yet the
formless matter of physical things without order and without light.\"
Another takes it in a different sense, that \"But the earth was
invisible and unformed, and darkness was over the abyss\" means, \"This
totality called heaven and earth was as yet unformed and lightless
matter, out of which the corporeal heaven and the corporeal earth were
to be made, with all the things in them that are known to our physical
senses.\" Another takes it still differently and says that \"But the
earth was invisible and unformed, and darkness was over the abyss\"
means, \"This totality called heaven and earth was as yet an unformed
and lightless matter, from which were to be made that intelligible
heaven (which is also called `the heaven of heavens\\

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