And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
Moses shows God surveying His work and approving it, not because He needed to learn it was good, but to teach us that nothing was made without reason and design. We ought to rest in God's judgment and apply all our senses to admiring His works, yet we see how readily men depart from this and detract from them.
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Light was the first visible being God created, not for His own sight but for ours, that we might see His works and His glory. It is the great beauty of the universe, most resembling its Parent in purity and power, next to spirit itself in nature. In the new creation, the first thing wrought in the soul is also light: the blessed Spirit enlightens the understanding, and those that were darkness by sin become light in the world by grace.
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Commenting on Genesis 1:3-5
Light was good because it would dispel chaos, rarefy the elements, and prepare the earth to bring forth vegetation before the greater luminaries appeared. God divided light from darkness so thoroughly that they never occupy the same place or moment; by the earth's revolution, one succeeds the other as His constant ordinance.
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