darkness, "And God saw the light that it was good."_
Then, we must not pass from this passage of Scripture without noticing
that when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," it was
immediately added, "And God saw the light that it was good." No such
expression followed the statement that He separated the light from the
darkness, and called the light Day and the darkness Night, lest the
seal of His approval might seem to be set on such darkness, as well as
on the light. For when the darkness was not subject of disapprobation,
as when it was divided by the heavenly bodies from this light which our
eyes discern, the statement that God saw that it was good is inserted,
not before, but after the division is recorded. "And God set them," so
runs the passage, "in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon
the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide
the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good." For He
approved of both, because both were sinless. But where God said, "Let
there be light, and there was light; and God saw the light that it was
good;" and the narrative goes on, "and God divided the light from the
darkness: and God called the light Day, and the darkness He called
Night," there was not in this place subjoined the statement, "And God
saw that it was good," lest both should be designated good, while one
of them was evil, not by nature, but by its own fault. And therefore,
in this case, the light alone received the approbation of the Creator,
while the angelic darkness, though it had been ordained, was yet not
approved.