"... It is obvious that LXX's aoratos kai akataskeuastos, "invisible and unformed" is greatly influenced by the Platonic myth Timaeus in its choice of Greek terms for tohu wabohu. Yet, it is noteworthy, LXX did not adopt the term chaos, "chaos", in translating tohu wabohu."

"... The first word aoratos is clearly interpretive; "invisible" or "unseen" implies something quite different than either the notion of "desert" or "formlessness." The word aoratos was the term used by Plato to represent the invisible preexisting world of ideas, e.g., Timaeus 51a."

"... Even though the concept of the equivalent invisible and unformed is used in the Timaeus, the Greek words do not appear together in the treatise itself. The nearest possible parallel is Plato's reference to a "mother and receptacle" which he called "a kind invisible and unshaped.""