So far as I can see, these remarks about the subject under consideration are sufficient for us to set aside other opinions and to establish the following: Out of nothing God created heaven and earth as an unformed mass so that the unformed earth was surrounded by the unformed heaven or mist. It remains for us to have some discussion also about the words. And here we immediately encounter some who argue in a variety of ways and with subtlety about the phrase “in the beginning.” They explain “in the