"V. 2c. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The Father through the Son, whom Moses here calls
the Word, creates 
"the heavens and the earth" out of nothing.
"the heavens and the earth" out of nothing. Over
these the Holy Spirit broods. And as a hen sits upon her eggs that she
may hatch her young, thus warming her eggs and as it were infusing
into them animation, so the Scriptures say the Holy Ghost brooded as
it were on the waters; that He might infuse life into these elementary
substances which were afterwards to be animated and garnished. For the
office of the Holy Spirit is to give life."
Martin Luther
