15. I find but one voice, one song in any way worthy of the present occasion----that which Isaiah hath shouted out before us, exactly suited to the present times, and vying with the magnitude of the blessing: "Let the heavens above rejoice, and let the clouds drop down righteousness; let the mountains break forth into joy, and let the little hills exult" inasmuch as the whole creation and the heavenly powers, such, at least, is my opinion, take an equal interest in these events. For not only does the "whole creation groan with us and is in the pangs of labour, being made subject to corruption" (I mean to things below that are born and perish) "expecting the end of these things and the revelation," in order that itself may then obtain the hoped-for deliverance, as being bound fast to them against its will through the power of Him that created it; but it also joins in glorifying Him, and exults together with the sons of God when they do rejoice.

ΙΕʹ. Μίαν εὑρίσκω φωνὴν, ἓν μέλος, τῶν παρόντων πως ἄξιον, ἣν Ἡσαΐας πρὸ ἡμῶν ἀνεφθέγξατο, σφόδρα τῷ νῦν καιρῷ πρέπουσαν, καὶ τῷ μεγέθει τῆς εὐεργεσίας ἁμιλλωμένην: Εὐφραινέσθω ὁ οὐρανὸς ἄνωθεν, καὶ αἱ νεφέλαι ῥανάτωσαν δικαιοσύνην: ῥηξάτω τὰ ὄρη εὐφροσύνην, καὶ οἱ βουνοὶ ἀγαλλίασιν: ἐπεὶ καὶ κτίσις πᾶσα, καὶ δυνάμεις οὐράνιοι, καὶ τῶν τοιούτων, ὥς γε δὴ ὁ ἐμὸς λόγος, συνεπαισθάνονται: οὐ γὰρ συστενάζει μόνον καὶ συνωδίνει δουλεύουσα τῇ φθορᾷ, τοῖς κάτω λέγω γινομένοις τε καὶ ἀπογινομένοις, ἀποκαραδοκοῦσα τὸ τέλος τούτων καὶ τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν, ἵνα καὶ αὐτὴ τότε τύχῃ τῆς ἐλπιζομένης ἐλευθερίας, ὡς νῦν ἄκουσα τούτοις προσδεδεμένη διὰ τὴν τοῦ δημιουργήσαντος δύναμιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ συνδοξάζει καὶ συναγάλλεται τοῖς τοῦ Θεοῦ τέκνοις εὐφραινομένοις.