Chapter

 1 3     |        beginning God created the heaven and the earth;" and as long
 2 4     |       gods" in name, "whether in heaven or in earth, yet to us there
 3 18    |    fountains which are under the heaven, I was present, compacting
 4 19    |     beginning, when God made the heaven and the earth, they will
 5 19    |  substance. Now, inasmuch as the heaven and the earth are the principal
 6 19    |       the beginning God made the heaven and the earth;" just as
 7 19    |      said, "At last God made the heaven and the earth," if God had
 8 19    |         power, that God made the heaven and the earth.~
 9 20    |           when God made both the heaven and the earth in principio
10 20    |    course, in which God made the heaven and the earth "and the Word
11 22    |         through the firmament of heaven. And it was so. And God
12 22    |          informed about both the heaven and the earth, by indicating
13 22    |  beginning," then, "God made the heaven and the earth." I revere
14 25    |    Indeed, by this rule both the heaven and all creatures ought
15 26    |       manner with respect to the heaven, it informs us first of
16 26    |       the beginning God made the heaven:" it then goes on to introduce
17 26    |         and called the firmament heaven, the very thing He had created
18 26    |        beginning God created the heaven and the earth; but the earth
19 29    |        moon's assuaging ray. The heaven He did not all at once bedeck
20 29    |        separately along with the heaven.~
21 31    |         meant to indicate of the heaven only, and this earth of
22 31    |         it had declared that the heaven and the earth, as the very
23 31    |         the appurtenances of the heaven and the earth, made then
24 31    |       under the earth. Below the heaven, too, lay the spirit and
25 31    |           is of course under the heaven. And even as the earth brooded
26 31    |        darkness, so also did the heaven brood over the spirit and
27 31    |           were as members of the heaven and the earth. For in the
28 31    |    elements are contained in the heaven and the earth.~
29 32    |       forth the formation of the heaven and the earth, as if (they
30 34    |        to nothing. For "the very heaven shall be rolled together
31 34    |          made in the beginning. "Heaven and earth shall pass away,"
32 34    |       away," says He. "The first heaven and the first earth passed
33 34    |        stars too shall fall from heaven, even as a fig-tree casteth
34 45conc| wherewith "He hath meted out the heaven, and the earth with a span."
35 45conc|       and hath stretched out the heaven by His understanding." These
36 45conc|    wisdom, and stretched out the heaven by His understanding;" not