Commentaries on the Old Testament: Genesis to Second Samuel

A high-fidelity facsimile reproduction of a handwritten Syriac manuscript page containing a biblical commentary on Genesis 1:5-7. The text is written in a dense Serto script with marginal annotations on the left, right, and bottom margins.

4. Of his? as in the simultaneity for the subsistence? of what is. He said,
And he called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was
evening and there was morning, day one. He says that from here it is known
that from quiet, when there was no time and no measure of time, but like
to give life a vision that in the blink of an eye God desired it to be. For this,
which in one moment all the world he brought into existence by his will, as if to bring forth another
these which in it are as if in a vision, also for this he says that there was not in them time
for it to be arriving: because of this, first for the day, day, and after
it for the darkness, night he called them, as if to show from this
that since in one small blink of an eye it came, as if in the eye of the Word.
Heaven
to give life On this he called it day one. That all the days in one vision are preceding
for him in one moment. And there was evening and there was morning, day one. And went out the
other word: that this is that which will be a firmament and dividing between water and water.
And it was so. He says again, that there was no span and time between them.
But at this time as our time, it is clear that between morning and evening,
there is one of the order of our time that descends and ascends from morning
and to evening. And the wise one, who said the word "Let there be a firmament
and let it divide between water and water," said as if for the Word
which previously he said "Let there be light," and it was so. He says that it will be how? That
not that time should linger, but in one blink of an eye it happened. You, however, marvel how? That
in one vision Ephraim Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Ephraim, first he placed, that he said the word "Let there be
light," and there was light. And he called it day, and the darkness night.
And before all of them he willed that there should be a firmament, how that should come
the other word that there was one time of living. And from the first word went out the other word:
that they were in one moment. How is there time of living? Ephraim, first
not first. And we learned that all that was from the will of his own of the Word
in one blink of an eye it came. That it should not linger. Because of this it is said that he saw that it was
day one. And of his that in one thing it came out from his will the length of the Word
of God. That since from a vision it comes. And he called. Ephraim
as if from a sign that it should not linger from the word. And there go out all
the days in one smallness of a blink, how it was from the will of the wise one
also light, also firmament. And he said that he should divide between water and water from the ... of?
(Mar Ephraim the teacher)
that it says