II.1 chapter 34

There are also some people who believed that the creation of angels was signified with the waters which are mentioned in the first verses of Genesis (a separation of waters above the firmament (the angels) from the waters below). But that does not speak of creation, only of separation: those that assert that the waters above the firmament have to be angels are driven by their theories about the elements and their weight: they suppose it is not possible to have the element of water in such a high place. That theory is clearly wrong: otherwise how could it be possible that the human body contains fluids in the highest part of the body, the head, as well as in the lower parts?

Is it however possible to hold that the waters were never made, because such is nowhere mentioned in the description in Genesis?
That would be foolish, because though it is not written that God said: "Let there be waters", it is also even not written for the earth that God said: "Let there be earth". But it is clear that it was created, because it is written: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"; it is also clear that the waters must be included with the creation of the earth under one name, like in Psalm 95: "The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land."

With this chapter we end the first book of this work, because it is nor our intention nor in the scope of our work to describe the creation in full detail, and because the origin of the two kinds of angels (to which also the two kinds of people relate) is sufficiently described.