1:1 IN the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.



1:2 But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.



1:3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness. 1:4 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Creation of the Angels

Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention of them is made, it is implicitly under the name of "light," of which presently. "When the stars were made, the angels praised me with a loud voice." Job 38:7 The angels therefore existed before the stars; and the stars were made the fourth day. There is no question, then, that if the angels are included in the works of God during these six days, they are that light which was called "Day."
For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God; so that they, being illumined by the Light that created them, might themselves become light and be called "Day," in participation of that unchangeable Light and Day which is the Word of God, by whom both themselves and all else were made. "The true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world," John 1:9 —this Light lights also every pure angel, that he may be light not in himself, but in God; from whom if an angel turn away, he becomes impure, as are all those who are called unclean spirits, and are no longer light in the Lord, but darkness in themselves, being deprived of the participation of Light eternal. For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil."
To me it does not seem incongruous with the working of God, if we understand that the angels were created when that first light was made, and that a separation was made between the holy and the unclean angels, when, as is said, "God divided the light from the darkness; and God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night." For He alone could make this discrimination, who was able also before they fell, to foreknow that they would fall, and that, being deprived of the light of truth, they would abide in the darkness of pride. St. Paul tells us, 1 Thess. 5:5 For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. St. Peter and St. Jude said that certain angels sinned and were wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.(2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:13)



1:5 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.


1:6 And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament.


1:7 And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day.