Alcuin

PL 100, col. 519D

Datec. 796PlaceToursTraditionlatinVerseGenesis 1:2

English

Question 29. What is 'The Spirit of the Lord was borne over the waters'? — Answer: Not by wandering over them, but by power and a ruler's command, to form and quicken the formless matter which in this place is signified by the name of water.

Fresh draft (Claude), approved by Wilson Pruitt · cc-by

Latin

Inter. 29. Quid est: Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas (Gen. I, 2) ?-- Resp. Non pervagatione [ Edit., per vagationem], sed potestate, et regentis imperio, ad formandum et vivificandum informem materiam, quae hoc loco aquae nomine significatur

PL 100, col. 519D · pd

Notes

Augustine compressed to one sentence for the schoolroom. Note 'Spiritus Domini' (Old Latin) not 'Spiritus Dei' (Vulgate) — the Vetus Latina lingers in Alcuin's lemma.

Power, not place

Threads

→ echoes · Augustine
'Non pervagatione, sed potestate' compresses 'non per spatia locorum … sed per potentiam'.
← parallel · Glossa ordinaria (school of Laon)
Both carry the Old Latin lemma 'Spiritus Domini' against the Vulgate's 'Spiritus Dei'; no citation, but a shared Carolingian text-form.