{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We see, indeed, that our ordinary days have no evening but\r\nby the setting, and no morning but by the rising, of the sun;\r\nbut the first three days of all were passed without sun, since\r\nit is reported to have been made on the fourth day. And first\r\nof all, indeed, light was made by the word of God, and God,\r\nwe read, separated it from the darkness, and called the light\r\nDay, and the darkness Night; but what kind of light that was,\r\nand by what periodic movement it made evening and morning,\r\nis beyond the reach of our senses; neither can we understand\r\nhow it was, and yet must unhesitatingly believe it. For either\r\nit was some material light, whether proceeding from the upper<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_444\">[Pg 444]</a></span>\r\nparts of the world, far removed from our sight, or from the\r\nspot where the sun was afterwards kindled; or under the\r\nname of light the holy city was signified, composed of holy\r\nangels and blessed spirits, the city of which the apostle says,\r\n\"Jerusalem which is above is our eternal mother in heaven;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_454_454\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_454_454\">[454]</a>\r\nand in another place, \"For ye are all the children of the light,\r\nand the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of\r\ndarkness.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_455_455\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_455_455\">[455]</a> Yet in some respects we may appropriately speak\r\nof a morning and evening of this day also. For the knowledge\r\nof the creature is, in comparison of the knowledge of the\r\nCreator, but a twilight; and so it dawns and breaks into\r\nmorning when the creature is drawn to the praise and love\r\nof the Creator; and night never falls when the Creator is not\r\nforsaken through love of the creature. In fine, Scripture,\r\nwhen it would recount those days in order, never mentions\r\nthe word night. It never says, \"Night was,\" but \"The evening\r\nand the morning were the first day.\" So of the second and\r\nthe rest. And, indeed, the knowledge of created things contemplated\r\nby themselves is, so to speak, more colourless than\r\nwhen they are seen in the wisdom of God, as in the art by\r\nwhich they were made. Therefore evening is a more suitable\r\nfigure than night; and yet, as I said, morning returns when\r\nthe creature returns to the praise and love of the Creator.\r\nWhen it does so in the knowledge of itself, that is the first\r\nday; when in the knowledge of the firmament, which is the\r\nname given to the sky between the waters above and those\r\nbeneath, that is the second day; when in the knowledge of\r\nthe earth, and the sea, and all things that grow out of the\r\nearth, that is the third day; when in the knowledge of the\r\ngreater and less luminaries, and all the stars, that is the fourth\r\nday; when in the knowledge of all animals that swim in the\r\nwaters and that fly in the air, that is the fifth day; when in\r\nthe knowledge of all animals that live on the earth, and of\r\nman himself, that is the sixth day.<a id=\"FNanchor_456_456\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_456_456\">[456]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-768"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"166dd9fd204de6edfc7c691fb10104808852c0814e65fd2a51274504aba13c2c","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. 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