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ORdinary (a) daies] Coleynes coppy reades not this place so well. (b) For the] The schoole men Sent. 2. dist. 24. dispute much of this. But Augustine calleth not the light a body here: but saith God made it either some bright body, as the Sunne, or e•…•…s the contraction of the incorporeall light, made night, and the extension, day, as Basil saith, moouing like the Sun, in the egresse making morning, in the regresse euening. Hug. de. S. Victore, de Sacram. lib. 1. (c) Or els] Aug. de genes ad lit. lib. 1. (d) Yet hath] A diuers reading, both to one purpose. (e) The knowledge] De genes. ad lit▪ lib. 4. Where hee calleth it morning when the Angells by contem∣plating of the creation in themselues (where is deepe darkenesse) lift vp themselues to the knowledge of God: and if that in him they learne all things (which is more certaine then all habituall knowledge) then is it day: It growes towards euening when the Angels turne from God to contemplate of the creatures in themselues, but this euening neuer becommeth night for the Angells neuer preferre the worke before the worke man: that were most deepe, darke night. Thus much out of Augustine, the first mentioner of mornings & euenings knowledges.