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Gen_1:4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Ver. 4. And God saw the light that it was good.] - Moveover he foresaw, so one renders it. {a} He saw this long before, but he would have us to see it; he commends the goodness of this work of his to us. Good it is surely, and a goodly creature: "sweet," saith Solomon; {Ecc_11:7} "comfortable," saith David. {Psa_97:11} Which when one made question of - "That’s a blind man’s question," said the philosopher. {b} What is it then to enjoy him that is light essential? The Platonists (who were blind in divinis, and could not see afar off) could say that he was a blessed man, who enjoyed God, as the eye doth enjoy the light. {c}
And God divided the light, &c.] - Let not us confound them, {2Co_6:14 1Th_5:5-7} and so alter God’s order by doing deeds of darkness, in a day of grace, in a land of light. What make owls at Athens? or such "spots," óðéëïé ÷áé ìùìïé , among saints, as "count it pleasure to riot in the daytime?" {2Pe_2:13} It was a shame that it should be said, There was never less wisdom in Greece, than in the time of the seven wise men of Greece. {d} It was a worse "shame," that it should be said to the Corinthians, that "some of them had not the knowledge of God"; {1Co_15:34} and that such fornication was found among them as was not heard of among the heathen. {1Co_5:1} For what fellowship hath light with darkness? {2Co_6:14} Surely none. Our morning shadows fall as far as they can toward the west, evening toward the east, noonday toward the north, &c. Alexander having a soldier of his name, that was a coward, he bade him either abandon the name of Alexander, or be a soldier. {e}
{a} praeviderat autem - Zaberellus
{b} ôõöëïõ ôï åñùôçìá , Aristotle
{c} Beatum esse moninem Deo fruentem, sicut occulus luce. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, l. 3.
{d} Lactant.
{e} Plutarch