Angelomus of Luxeuil

English

But it is asked why it is said thus: 'In the beginning God made heaven and earth', and not said: 'In the beginning God said, Let heaven and earth be made', as it is told of the light: 'God said, Let there be light', and the rest? — Unless because first what he made had to be taken in universally under the name of heaven and earth, and commended, and then gone through in its parts, as it is read to have been done.

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

Latin

PL 115, col. 114C · pd

Notes

Augustine's question and his first answer, compressed to two sentences and shorn of the second answer that made the first provisional. What in De Genesi ad litteram is one horn of a dilemma ('was it that…? or was it that…?') is here the explanation, flatly. The sentences that follow immediately are Angelomus' treatment of 'empty and void' (built at K6), so this witness and that one are one continuous stretch of his commentary divided between two cruxes.

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  'Sed quaeritur cur ita dictum est … Nisi quia prius universaliter nomine coeli et terrae comprehendendum erat, et commendandum quod fecit, et deinde per partes exsequendum' reproduces De Genesi ad litteram I.9 sentence for sentence, unnamed, and drops the second answer that made the first one provisional.