Origen that the text is not meant to be taken literally: “Now what man of intelligence will believe that the first and the second and the third day, and the evening and the morning existed without the sun and moon and stars?”66 The “expanse” of Genesis 1:6 is our “outer person” (2 Cor. 4:16), and the lights that illuminate us are Christ and the church (John 8:12), with Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Isaiah, and so forth as stars.67
