Francis Patrick Kenrick

The Spirit of Elooim— the Divine power— was on the waters, to fashion and prepare them for the end of their creation. This is represented by a term used also Deut. 32 : 4, which expresses the incuba- tion of a bird brooding, as 8t Basil, after a Syrian interpreter, probably 8t Bphrem, remarks : " He moved over the waters," says St. Augustin, "not through space, as the sun over the earth, but by the force of His invincible excellence." Dt Gtn. contra Manich , 1. 1, c. 5. The wind is sometimes called the Spirit of God. Exod. 15 : 10; Ps. 147 : 18 ; Isa. 40 : 7. But St. Jerome insists that the creating Spirit, the source of life, is here understood. Quast, in Gtn. L. "The Spirit of God was waving over the face of the waters."