Nicholas of Lyra

Franciscan friar and one of the most influential biblical commentators of the Middle Ages. His Postillae perpetuae influenced Luther.

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• He Created — Cited for "to create" meaning "from nothing"

  "Bede and Lyra here."

• Introduction — Named among commentators after whom more recent authors wrote

  "Many more recent authors also wrote on Genesis after Lyra, Hugo, and Denis the Carthusian"

• Verse 3: And God said: Let there be light — Cited for the view that light was a luminous body

  "Lyra, and Abulensis"

• Verse 6: Let there be a firmament — Cited for the upper waters as crystalline heaven

  "Bonaventure, Lyra, Abulensis"

• Verse 21: And God Created the Great Sea Creatures — Cited alongside Abulensis for reporting the Jewish fable about whales

  "as Lyra and Abulensis report."

• Heaven and Earth: Four Interpretations — Listed as supporter of the empyrean heaven interpretation

  "Lyranus"