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It contains things the most important, and at the same time the most obscure…[There are none] who could explain all these momentous things, with sufficient appropriateness and success: For interpreters and commentators have confused and entangled them with such a variety, diversity, and infinity of questions, that it is sufficiently plain, that God has reserved the majesty of this wisdom, and the full and sound understanding of this chapter, to himself alone.
— Martin Luther on Genesis 1: The Creation: A Commentary on the First Five Chapters of the Book of Genesis, trans. Henry Cole, p. 23 and quoted by John Sailhamer, Genesis Unbound, p. 21.