Annotation X, Whether the firmament is between the upper and lower waters (Genesis 1:6)
“Let there be a firmament.”
Annotation X, Whether the firmament is between the upper and lower waters (Genesis 1:6) — Annotations on the Old Testament Annotations on the Old Testament
Annotatio X
”Let there be a firmament.” — Genesis 1:6
Augustine, in the 13th book of the Confessions, chapter 32, expounding this passage, writes that the firmament was made between the spiritual upper waters and the corporeal lower ones;1 which — as said not considerately enough in so obscure a matter — he revokes in the second book of the Retractations, chapter 6.
Footnotes
Left margin: Whether the firmament is between the upper and lower waters. (An firmamentum sit inter aquas superiores & inferiores.) — and: St. Augustine retracts himself. (D. Augustinus se retractat.)↩
Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation X, Whether the firmament is between the upper and lower waters (Genesis 1:6),” in Annotations on the Old Testament,
English translation, Mind of the Church,
https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta/011-annotation-x-whether-the-firmament-is-between-the-upper-and-/.
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