Jerome

English

And God said: Let there be light. And light was made.

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

Latin

PL 28, col. 163C · pd

Notes

Four words that carry the crux: the light is made on the first day, the sun on the fourth, and Scripture never says what this light is. Every witness on both benches is answering a question the verse creates by silence.

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• ← contests · Peter Abelard
  'Notandum vero pro eo quod dicimus: Fiat lux, et facta est lux, in Hebraeo haberi: Sit lux, et fuit lux.' Abelard reports the Hebrew against the Latin he is expounding, as K7 found him doing with volitabat at PL 178:735B; the observation is right, and where he got it is unknown.