Some have supposed the sun was created long before, our earth, and that his beams took effect on our earth, as now, on the fourth day from his creation. Others have supposed that the sun and earth were created _simultaneously_, but that the sun’s beams did not fully penetrate our atmosphere, so as to make himself distinctly visible as now, until the fourth day. In both these cases it is supposed that the words of Moses, in regard to the creation of the sun on the fourth day, are to be interpreted of his _appearance_, and _influence_ on the earth, by dispensing light. But this does not account for the _existence_ of light _from the first to the fourth day_. This is an insuperable objection here. Finding the foregoing theories pressed with this insurmountable difficulty, other commentators have supposed, Light was a real substance, created _simultaneously_, and in conjunction with the original chaotic mass of our earth; and when God said “Let there be light, and there was light,” He, by his divine power, caused the chaotic light to separate itself from the earth, and, departing, _to condense_ in the body of the sun; or, as some would probably say, in view of Dr. Herschell’s solar discoveries, in the phosphoric clouds which surround the real body of the sun. In this case, if the light concentrated in the body of the sun, then that luminary must be a body of _condensed light_: if in the solar phosphoric clouds of Dr. Herschell, then those clouds would be _condensed light_. This body of condensed light is considered the source of our solar light, which flies off from it in the form of rays or beams. DR. URE, in his Chemical Dictionary, article LIGHT, takes this view. He says, “We learn from scripture, that light pre-existed before this luminary (the sun) and that its _subsequent condensation_ in his orb was a particular act of Almighty Power. The phosphorescence of minerals, buried since the origin of things in the bowels of the earth, coincides strictly with the Mosaic account of the creation. We shall therefore regard light as the first born element of chaos, as an independent essence, universally distributed through the mineral, vegetable, and animal world, capable of being disengaged from its latent state by various natural and artificial operations.”