The Bible

Genesis 1:15

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

The Bible

Psalms 33:6

⁶ By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Commentary

Spreading themselves

'Spreading themselves on the earth,' as in Genesis 8:17, signifies the internal self operating on the external.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 913)