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composed of strings, both high and low, both slack and taut and middle, and all well-tuned by the art of music, in this way indeed this universe, being of many parts and many compounds, of cold together with its opposite, hot, and of moist and again its opposite, dry substance, having come together into one harmony would be a great instrument, a creation of the great God, and the divine Word, no longer composed of parts nor compounded of opposites, being Himself without parts and uncompounded, well and wisely strikes up the whole universe, rendering to his own Father and King of all the melody that is owed and fitting to Him. And as in one body countless limbs and parts, both entrails and vitals, are brought together, but one unseen soul is spread through all and one mind without parts and incorporeal, so indeed also in this case, one world has been composed from many parts, and likewise one Word of God, of many powers and all-powerful, coming through all things and unseen, spread over all things, would be the cause of all things in them. 12.12 Do you not see with your eyes the whole universe, how one heaven contains countless choirs of stars circling about it? Again, one sun, and not more, obscures the gleam of all things by its excess of light; so then, since the Father is one, His Word also must be one, good from a good Father. But if anyone should find fault that there are not more, it is time for such a one to complain that He did not also establish more suns and moons and worlds and countless other things, in the manner of a madman attempting to pervert the right and well-ordered things of nature. But as among visible things one sun illumines the entire sensible world, so indeed also among intelligible things, unseen by us and invisible, one all-powerful Word of God illuminates all things; 12.13 since even in a human being one soul and one rational power could become the creator of very many things at once, if the same one should undertake both to farm and to build ships and to steer and to build, having learned many things, and one mind and reason in a human being might at some time receive the knowledge of countless things, and the same one will do geometry and astronomy and will hand down the principles of grammar and rhetoric and medicine, and will preside over both theoretical and practical matters, and yet no one ever thought there to be more souls in one body, nor marveled at the many substances in a human being on account of the reception of many subjects of learning. 12.14 And if someone, having found a formless mass of clay and then softened it with his hands, should impose the form of a living creature, a head with one shape, and hands and feet with another, and eyes again with another and cheeks likewise, having fashioned ears and a mouth and nostrils, a chest and shoulders by the plastic art; but not, because many shapes and parts and limbs have been created in one body, should one consider the makers to be as many, but one should praise only one craftsman of the whole together who fashioned the whole with one reason and one power; so indeed also in the case of this entire universe, though it is one, yet subsisting of very many parts, one must not suppose many creative powers, nor name many gods, but confess one God, the all-wise and all-harmonious who is truly the power of God and the wisdom of God, coming through all things with one power and one excellence and passing through the whole world and giving subsistence to and life to all things, both to all things universally and to particular bodies and elements making from itself a varied provision. 12.15 Thus also of the sun's light one and the same ray at once and at the same time illuminates the air, gives light to the eyes, warms the touch, fertilizes the earth, and makes plants grow, establishes time, leads the stars, circles the heaven, brightens the world, reveals the manifest power of God to the universe, and accomplishes all these things with one impulse of nature, and the nature of fire likewise refines gold, but melts lead, and dissolves wax, but dries clay, and parches wood, with one caustic power

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συνεστῶσα χορδῶν, ὀξειῶν τε καὶ βαρειῶν, τῶν τε ἀνειμένων καὶ ἐπιτεταμένων καὶ μέσων, εὖ δ' ἡρμοσμένων ἁπασῶν τέχνῃ τῇ μουσικῇ, κατὰ ταῦτα δὴ καὶ ὅδε πολυμερὴς ὢν καὶ πολυσύνθετος ψυχρᾶς ὁμοῦ καὶ τῆς ἐναντίας ταύτης θερμῆς, ὑγρᾶς τε καὶ αὖ πάλιν τῆς ἐναντίας ταύτης ξηρᾶς οὐσίας, εἰς μίαν συνελθὼν ἁρμονίαν ὄργανον ἂν εἴη μέγα, μεγάλου θεοῦ δημιούργημα, λόγος δ' ὁ θεῖος, οὐκέτ' ἐκ μερῶν συνεστὼς οὐδ' ἐξ ἐναντίων συγκείμενος, ἀμερὴς αὐτὸς ὢν καὶ ἀσύνθετος εὖ καὶ σοφῶς τὸ πᾶν ἀνακρούεται, τῷ αὐτοῦ πατρὶ καὶ βασιλεῖ τῶν ὅλων τὴν ὀφειλομένην καὶ αὐτῷ πρέπουσαν ἀποδιδοὺς μελῳδίαν. ὡς δ' ὑφ' ἑνὶ σώματι μέλη μὲν καὶ μέρη σπλάγχνα τε καὶ ἔγκατα συνῆκται μυρία, ψυχὴ δ' ἀφανὴς ἥπλωται δι' ὅλων μία καὶ νοῦς ἀμερὴς καὶ ἀσώματος εἷς, οὕτω δὴ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦδε, ἐκ μὲν πολλῶν μερῶν κόσμος συνέστηκεν εἷς, λόγος δὲ ὡσαύτως θεοῦ πολυδύναμος καὶ παντοδύναμος εἷς διὰ πάντων ἥκων καὶ τοῖς πᾶσιν ἀφανῶς ἐφηπλωμένος πάντων ἂν εἴη τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς αἴτιος. 12.12 οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὀφθαλμοῖς τὸν σύμπαντα κόσμον, ὡς οὐρανὸς εἷς μυρίας περιλαμβάνει ἀμφὶ τοῦτον χορείας ἄστρων περιπολούσας; πάλιν εἷς ἥλιος, ἀλλ' οὐ πλείους, τὰς ἁπάντων ὑπερβολῇ φωτὸς καλύπτει μαρμαρυγάς· οὕτω δῆτα ἑνὸς ὄντος πατρός, καὶ τὸν τούτου λόγον ἕνα χρὴ ἀγαθὸν ἀγαθοῦ πατρὸς εἶναι. εἰ δ' ὅτι μὴ καὶ πλείους ἐπιμέμψαιτό τις, ὥρα τὸν τοιοῦτον ὅτι μὴ καὶ ἡλίους συνίστη πλείους καὶ σελήνας καὶ κόσμους καὶ μυρία ἄλλα αἰτιᾶσθαι, μαινομένου τρόπον τὰ ὀρθὰ καὶ εὖ ἔχοντα τῆς φύσεως διαστρέφειν ἐπιχειροῦντα. ἀλλ' ὡς ἐν ὁρατοῖς ἥλιος εἷς τὸν αἰσθητὸν ἅπαντα καταλάμπει κόσμον, οὕτω δὴ καὶ ἐν νοητοῖς ἀφανῶς ἡμῖν καὶ ἀοράτως εἷς ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ λόγος παντοδύναμος τὰ σύμπαντα καταυγάζει· 12.13 ἐπεὶ καὶ ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ μία ψυχὴ καὶ μία λογικὴ δύναμις πλείστων ὁμοῦ γένοιτ' ἂν δημιουργός, εἰ καὶ γεωργεῖν ἡ αὐτὴ καὶ ναυπηγεῖν καὶ κυβερνᾶν καὶ οἰκοδομεῖν πολλὰ μαθοῦσα ἐπιβάλλοιτο, καὶ εἷς νοῦς ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ λογισμὸς δέξαιτ' ἄν ποτε μυρίων ἐπιστήμας, γεωμετρήσει τε ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ ἀστρονομήσει καὶ λόγους γραμματικῆς καὶ ῥητορικῆς παραδώσει καὶ ἰατρικῆς, ἔν τε μαθήμασι καὶ τοῖς κατὰ χεῖρα προστήσεται, καὶ οὔπω γε οὐδεὶς πώποτε πλείους ἐν ἑνὶ σώματι ψυχὰς ἡγήσατο εἶναι, οὐδὲ πολλὰς ἐθαύ μασεν τὰς ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ οὐσίας διὰ τὴν τῶν πολλῶν μαθημάτων ὑποδοχήν. 12.14 εἰ δὲ καὶ ἄμορφον ὕλην πηλοῦ τις εὑρὼν κἄπειτα χερσὶν ἁπαλύνας ἐπιθείη ζώου μορφήν, ἄλλῳ μὲν σχήματι κεφαλήν, χεῖρας δὲ καὶ πόδας ἑτέρῳ, καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς πάλιν ἄλλῳ καὶ παρειὰς ὡσαύτως, ὦτά τε καὶ στόμα καὶ ῥῖνας στέρνα τε καὶ ὤμους ὑποτυπωσάμενος τέχνῃ τῇ πλαστικῇ· ἀλλ' οὐκ, ἐπεὶ πολλὰ σχήματα καὶ μέρη καὶ μέλη ὑφ' ἑνὶ σώματι δεδημιούργηται, τοσούτους χρὴ καὶ τοὺς ποιητὰς ἡγεῖσθαι, ἀλλ' ἕνα μόνον τὸν τοῦ παντὸς ἀθρόως τεχνίτην ἐπαινεῖν τὸν ἑνὶ λογισμῷ καὶ μιᾷ δυνάμει τὸ πᾶν τεκτηνάμενον· οὕτω δὴ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦδε τοῦ σύμπαντος κόσμου, ἑνὸς μὲν ὄντος ἐκ μερῶν δὲ πλείστων ὑφεστῶτος, οὐ πολλὰς χρὴ ὑποτίθεσθαι δημιουργικὰς δυνάμεις, οὐδὲ πολλοὺς ὀνομάζειν θεούς, μίαν δὲ θεολογεῖν τὴν πάνσοφον καὶ παναρμόνιον τὴν ὡς ἀληθῶς θεοῦ δύναμιν καὶ θεοῦ σοφίαν, μιᾷ δυνάμει καὶ ἀρετῇ μιᾷ διὰ πάντων ἥκουσαν καὶ διὰ παντὸς τοῦ κόσμου χωροῦσαν καὶ τὰ πάντα ὑφισταμένην τε καὶ ζωοῦσαν, καθόλου τε τοῖς πᾶσι καὶ τοῖς κατὰ μέρος σώμασί τε καὶ στοιχείοις ποικίλην τὴν ἐξ αὐτῆς χορηγίαν ποιουμένην. 12.15 οὕτως καὶ φωτὸς ἡλίου μία καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ προσβολὴ ὁμοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ καταυγάζει μὲν ἀέρα, φωτίζει δὲ ὀφθαλμούς, ἁφὴν δὲ θερμαίνει, πιαίνει δὲ γῆν, καὶ αὔξει φυτά, χρόνον ὑφίστησιν, ἄστρων ἡγεῖται, οὐρανὸν περιπολεῖ, κόσμον φαιδρύνει, θεοῦ δύναμιν ἐναργῆ τῷ παντὶ συνίστησιν, ταῦτά τε πάντα μιᾷ ῥοπῇ φύσεως συντελεῖ, καὶ πυρὸς φύσις ὡσαύτως χρυσὸν μὲν καθαίρει, μόλιβδον δὲ τήκει, καὶ κηρὸν μὲν λύει, πηλὸν δὲ ξηραίνει, ὕλην δὲ φρύγει, μιᾷ τῇ καυστικῇ δυνάμει