Genesis 1:14

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — Cited as example of hendiadys

  "Let (the sun and moon) be for signs, and times, and days, and years"

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Vulgate Text: Genesis 1:1-31 — Full Vulgate text quoted

  "14. And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years: 15. to shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth. And it was so."

• Verse 14: Let There Be Lights in the Firmament — Firmament here means all celestial orbs; stars are not animated

  "14. LET THERE BE LUMINARIES IN THE FIRMAMENT."

• Verse 14: Let There Be Lights in the Firmament — God rarefied part of the heavens and condensed the luminous substance from day one into sun, moon, and stars

  "I say: God on this fourth day rarefied one part of the heavens, in order to condense another, namely that luminous substance which was created on the first day and called light, verse 3"

• Verse 14: Let There Be Lights in the Firmament — Stars divide day from night, indicating alternation of labor and rest

  "LET THEM DIVIDE THE DAY AND THE NIGHT, that is, Let them distinguish day from night"

• Verse 14: Let There Be Lights in the Firmament — Stars are signs not of judicial astrology but of weather, seasons, agricultural timing

  ""For signs," not the prognostications of judicial astrology, for Scripture condemns these"