{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010278.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010278.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010278.htm","text":"Chapter XII.\u2014Allegorical Explanation of Genesis, Chap. I., Concerning the Origin of the Church and Its Worship.\n13. Proceed in thy confession, say to the Lord thy God, O my faith, Holy, Holy, Holy, O Lord my God, in Thy name have we been baptized, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in Thy name do we baptize, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 1206 because among us also in His Christ did God make heaven and earth, namely, the spiritual and carnal people of His Church. 1207 Yea, and our earth, before it received the \u201cform of doctrine,\u201d 1208 was invisible and formless, and we were covered with the darkness of ignorance. For Thou correctest man for iniquity, 1209 and \u201cThy judgments are a great deep.\u201d 1210 But because Thy Spirit was \u201cborne over the waters,\u201d 1211 Thy mercy forsook not our misery, 1212 and Thou saidst, \u201cLet there be light,\u201d \u201cRepent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\u201d 1213 Repent ye, let there be light. 1214 And because our soul was troubled within us, 1215 we remembered Thee, O Lord, from the land of Jordan, and that mountain 1216 equal unto Thyself, but little for our sakes; and upon our being displeased with our darkness, we turned unto Thee, \u201cand there was light.\u201d And, behold, we were sometimes darkness, but now light in the Lord. 1217\nHe similarly interprets \u201cheaven and earth\u201d in his De Gen. ad Lit. ii. 4. With this compare Chrysostom\u2019s illustration in his De P\u00e6nit. hom. 8. The Church is like the ark of Noah, yet different from it. Into that ark as the animals entered, so they came forth. The fox remained a fox, the hawk a hawk, and the serpent a serpent. But with the spiritual ark it is not so, for in it evil dispositions are changed. This illustration of Chrysostom is used with an effective but rough eloquence by the Italian preacher Segneri, in his Quaresimale, serm. iv. sec.\n194:1208 194:1209 194:1210 194:1211 194:1212 194:1213 194:1214\n\u201cHis putting repentance and light together is, for that baptism was anciently called illumination, as Heb. 6.4, Ps. 42.2.\u201d\u2014W. W. See also p. 118, note 4, part 1, above, for the meaning of \u201cillumination.\u201d\n194:1215 194:1216\nThat is, Christ. See p. 130, note 8, part 2, above; and compare the De Div. Qu\u00e6st., lxxxiii. 6.\n194:1217","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions: ...","type":"page"}