Moses
Genesis 1:16BSB·traditional attribution

God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.

John Calvin Reformed

Moses wrote in a popular style so that common people could understand him without instruction, not as a natural philosopher measuring spheres and distances. Astronomy itself is useful and unfolds God's wisdom, and studious men are right to pursue it; but Moses had to speak to the learned and unlearned alike, and so he descended to the grosser method of instruction that fits his office as a teacher.

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Matthew Henry Presbyterian

Light was at first chaos, scattered and confused, but God collected it and made it into several luminaries, both glorious and serviceable. He is a God of order, not confusion, and as He is light, He is the Father of all lights, placing them in the firmament like candles on a golden candlestick to give light to all that dwell below.

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Commenting on Genesis 1:14-19

John Gill Reformed Baptist

Men worship these great lights as if they were lords and kings, but they are God's own creations, placed in heaven to serve mankind. The sun is reckoned a hundred thousand times bigger than the earth; the moon is called great not for its bulk but for its quality as a light, reflecting more light upon the earth than any body save the sun.

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