Chapter XII.--Allegorical Explanation of Genesis, Chap. I., Concerning the Origin of the Church and Its Worship.

13. 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, ¹ because among us also in His Christ did God make heaven and earth, namely, the spiritual and carnal people of His Church. ² Yea, and our earth, before it received the "form of doctrine," ³ was invisible and formless, and we were covered with the darkness of ignorance. For Thou correctest man for iniquity, ⁴ and "Thy judgments are a great deep." ⁵ But because Thy Spirit was "borne over the waters," ⁶ Thy mercy forsook not our misery, ⁷ and Thou saidst, "Let there be light," "Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." ⁸ Repent ye, let there be light. ⁹ And because our soul was troubled within us, ¹⁰ we remembered Thee, O Lord, from the land of Jordan, and that mountain ¹¹ equal unto Thyself, but little for our sakes; and upon our being displeased with our darkness, we turned unto Thee, "and there was light." And, behold, we were sometimes darkness, but now light in the Lord. ¹²