The First Day
Before the sun, light. Scroll to watch it made, and divided from the dark.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the water.
Genesis 1:2
And God said, Let light be, and light was
Genesis 1:3
And God divided the light from the darkness; and God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:4b-5
The command, then, of God, that is, His Word, shining as a lamp in an enclosed chamber, lit up all that was under heaven, when He had made light apart from the world.
Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus II.13
Scripture as St Theophilus of Antioch sets it down in To Autolycus. Both texts are from the Forge library.