Candida Phoenix Philosophica

3For on the first day God created earth and water mingled together—that unformed, unordered mass of bodies which Moses calls tohu va-bohu, earth empty and void—as the foundations of the world. On that same day he immediately added light, since “light is the first grace of a building,” as Ambrose says concerning Genesis 1:3–5. This light, like the later light already discussed, was no substance, nor an incorporeal one, as those suppose who would understand it as the element fire, the sun, or a luminous little cloud. In agreement with sounder thinkers, I hold that it was an accident: a certain transparency and translucency, or luminous quality, not subsisting without a subject but inhering in one.