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He brought forth, one, the first, the light, and the other, our soul, the one visible and sensible and irrational, and the other invisible and intellectual and rational. And all other things He brought forth from things that were, through this again intending to teach them that He himself was the maker of all creatures, both irrational and rational, sensible and intellectual, visible and invisible, having brought them forth from non-being into being. 3.31 It was not unlikely for them again during the day and night, as rational beings, to reason whether He who brought forth this light also brought forth the heaven. Again using a voice He makes the second heaven before their eyes, having fixed it from the waters in likeness to the form of the first heaven. And again through this they were taught that He Himself is the maker of this and of the former heaven. And He completes the works of the second day. Then again, as they were reasoning and considering about the earth, likewise having gathered the water He reveals it, having named the dry land earth, as a master having given it a name, just as He also called the firmament heaven. Then He brings forth from the earth seeds and plants and every green thing and trees, teaching that He uses His own creatures, each for what He wishes. 3.32 Then, since on the third day He brought forth the plants and the seeds, on the next day then, I mean, on the fourth day, as such things needed mixture and order, He makes from the light, which He brought forth before, the luminaries and the stars, and having placed them in the firmament of heaven He commanded the multitude of the invisible Powers to move them in order, rationally, along with the air, and to make them rise and set and move around for the good temperature of the plants and of all that were to use them, so that when they set they might be cooled by the cooling and movement of the air, and by the presence of the luminaries they might enjoy heat. 3.33 Certain of the invisible Powers, therefore, having remained doubtful in mind from the beginning until now, and ungrateful toward their maker, having proceeded unmindfully in the order entrusted to them by God, puffed up by the sharpness of their nature and their inherent power and reason, counting as nothing the voice and command of God that came forth, but scorning it, nor indeed understanding that they were brought forth as creatures along with the darkness, they dared, swelling with madness, to suspect that they had come to this automatically, I mean, the devil who was entrusted with the power of the air and others with him who were entrusted with other things, and having seized for themselves the honor and worship due to God and having quickly become blinded and insubordinate, so that they might not also harm others, they were cast down from their height and dignity to the earth. Whence also on the sixth day, after man was formed, being found near the earth and having envied God's great care for man, he wished to drag man down into his own sickness. The text 3.34 Again on the fifth He commands various living creatures to be brought forth from the waters according to their kind, both aquatic sea-monsters and the rest, along with all winged creatures that fly in the air; then again on the sixth from the earth all the cattle and the beasts and reptiles according to their kind. And after preparing the whole house, most complete and well-ordered, then, as when a king builds and fills a city, he places his own image, having painted and adorned it with various colors, so also the all-wise God, as if having gathered together His various and diverse works, both rational and irrational, mortal and immortal, corruptible and incorruptible, sensible and intellectual, completes and fashions one living creature composed from all natures, I mean, man, and places him in the prepared house as in the place of His own image, making known that there is one creator of the universe. 3.35 Whence the angels, marveling at the image, being well-disposed to God, attend to and minister to His image, likewise also all creation, the sun shining from above and making the day for man, the moon and stars the deepest darkness from

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παρήγαγε, μίαν μὲν τὴν πρώτην, τὸ φῶς, καὶ τὴν ἑτέραν, τὴν ἡμετέραν ψυχήν, τὴν μίαν ὁρατὴν καὶ αἰσθητὴν καὶ ἄλογον, καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἀόρατον καὶ νοερὰν καὶ λογικήν. Τὰ δὲ ἄλλα πάντα ἐκ τῶν ὄντων παρήγαγε, διὰ τούτου πάλιν διδάξαι αὐτοὺς προθέμενος ὡς αὐτὸς εἴη πάντων τῶν κτισμάτων ἀλόγων τε καὶ λογικῶν, αἰσθητῶν καὶ νοητῶν, ὁρατῶν καὶ ἀοράτων ποιητής, ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὰ παραγαγών. 3.31 Οὐκ ἀπεικὸς ἦν αὐτοὺς πάλιν ἐν τῷ νυχθημέρῳ ὡς λογικοὺς διαλογίζεσθαι, εἰ ὁ τοῦτο τὸ φῶς παραγαγὼν ἆρα καὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν παρήγαγε. Φωνῇ πάλιν χρησάμενος ποιεῖ τὸν δεύτερον οὐρανὸν ἐπ' ὄψεσιν αὐτῶν, πήξας ἐκ τῶν ὑδάτων καθ' ὁμοιότητα τῷ εἴδει τοῦ πρώτου οὐρανοῦ. Καὶ πάλιν διὰ τούτου ἐδιδάσκοντο ὡς αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ τούτου καὶ τοῦ προτέρου οὐρανοῦ ποιητής. Καὶ τελειοῖ τὰ τῆς δευτέρας ἡμέρας. Εἶτα πάλιν διαλογιζομένων αὐτῶν καὶ περὶ τῆς γῆς σκοπούντων, ὁμοίως συνάξας τὸ ὕδωρ φανεροῖ αὐτήν, γῆν τὴν ξηρὰν ὀνομάσας, ὡς δεσπότης ὄνομα αὐτῇ τεθεικώς, ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ στερέωμα ἐκάλεσεν οὐρανόν. Εἶτα ἐξάγει ἐκ τῆς γῆς σπέρματα καὶ βοτάνας καὶ πᾶν χλωρὸν καὶ ξύλα, διδάσκων ὡς ἰδίοις κτίσμασι κέχρηται, ἑκάστῳ πρὸς ὃ βούλεται. 3.32 Εἶτα, ἐπειδὴ τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἐξήγαγε τὰ φυτὰ καὶ τὰ σπέρματα, τῇ ἐφεξῆς λοιπόν, λέγω δὴ τῇ τετάρτῃ ἡμέρᾳ, ὡς χρῃζόντων τῶν τοιούτων κράσεως καὶ τάξεως, ποιεῖ ἐκ τοῦ φωτός, οὗ πρώην παρήγαγε, τοὺς φωστῆρας καὶ τὰ ἄστρα, καὶ θεὶς κατὰ τὸ στερέωμα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τὴν πληθὺν τῶν ἀοράτων ∆υνάμεων κινεῖν αὐτὰ κατὰ τάξιν λογικῶς ἐκέλευσεν, ἅμα καὶ τὸν ἀέρα, καὶ ἀνατέλλειν αὐτὰ καὶ δύνειν καὶ περιφέρειν πρὸς εὐκρασίαν τῶν φυτῶν καὶ πάντων τῶν μελλόντων κεχρῆσθαι αὐτοῖς, ἵνα δυνόντων μὲν αὐτῶν τῇ ψύξει καὶ κινήσει τοῦ ἀέρος ψύχωνται, τῇ δὲ παρουσίᾳ τῶν φωστήρων θέρμης ἀπολαύωσιν. 3.33 Τινὲς οὖν ἐκ τῶν ἀοράτων ∆υνάμεων ἀμφίβολοι τῇ γνώμῃ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἕως τοῦ νῦν μεμενηκότες, καὶ ἀγνώμονες περὶ τὸν πεποιηκότα ἐπὶ τῇ πεπιστευμένῃ αὐτοῖς παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τάξει ἀμνημόνως προελθόντες, τῇ τῆς φύσεως ὀξύτητι καὶ τῇ προσούσῃ δυνάμει καὶ λόγῳ φυσώμενοι τὴν προερχομένην φωνήν τε καὶ πρόσταξιν τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς οὐδὲν λογιζόμενοι, ἀλλὰ περιφρονοῦντες, οὔτε μὴν συνιέντες ὡς ἅμα τῷ σκότῳ ὡς κτίσματα παρήχθησαν, ἐτόλμησαν τῇ παραφροσύνῃ ὀγκούμενοι ὑποπτεῦσαι ἑαυτοὺς εἰς τοῦτο αὐτομάτως προελθεῖν, λέγω δὴ ὁ διάβολος ὁ τὴν ἐξουσίαν τοῦ ἀέρος πιστευθεὶς καὶ ἕτεροι σὺν αὐτῷ ἕτερα πεπιστευμένοι, καὶ τὴν ὀφειλομένην τῷ Θεῷ τιμήν τε καὶ προσκύνησιν εἰς ἑαυτοὺς ἁρπάσαντες καὶ τυφωθέντες καὶ ἀνυπότακτοι γεγονότες ταχέως, ἵνα μὴ καὶ ἑτέρους βλάψωσιν, ἐκ τοῦ ὕψους καὶ τῆς ἀξίας κατερρίφησαν περὶ τὴν γῆν. Ὅθεν καὶ τῇ ἕκτῃ ἡμέρᾳ, μετὰ τὸ διαπλασθῆναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, περὶ τὴν γῆν εὑρεθεὶς καὶ φθονήσας τῇ τοσαύτῃ ἐπιμελείᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῇ πρὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἠβουλήθη περὶ τὴν ἰδίαν νόσον συγκατασπᾶσαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον. Τὸ κείμενον 3.34 Πάλιν τῇ πέμπτῃ ἐκ τῶν ὑδάτων κελεύει ἔμψυχα ζῷα διάφορα ἀναδίδοσθαι κατὰ γένος, ἔνυδρα κήτη τε καὶ τὰ λοιπά, ἅμα καὶ πτηνὰ πάντα ἀεροπόρα· εἶτα πάλιν τῇ ἕκτῃ ἐκ τῆς γῆς τὰ κτήνη πάντα καὶ τὰ θηρία καὶ ἑρπετὰ κατὰ γένος. Καὶ μετὰ τὸ κατασκευάσαι πάντα τὸν οἶκον, πληρέστατόν τε καὶ εὐάρμοστον, τότε ὡς ἐπὶ βασιλέως κτίσαντος πόλιν καὶ πληρώσαντος, τὴν ἰδίαν εἰκόνα τίθησι χρώσας καὶ καλλωπίσας ἐκ διαφόρων χρωμάτων, οὕτως καὶ ὁ πάνσοφος Θεός, ὥσπερ συνάξας τὰ διάφορα καὶ ποικίλα ἑαυτοῦ ποιήματα, λογικά τε καὶ ἄλογα, θνητὰ καὶ ἀθάνατα, φθαρτὰ καὶ ἄφθαρτα, αἰσθητά τε καὶ νοητά, ἀποτελεῖ καὶ κατασκευάζει ἓν ζῷον ἐξ ἁπασῶν συνεστηκὸς τῶν φύσεων, λέγω δὴ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, καὶ τίθησιν ἐν τῷ ἡτοιμασμένῳ οἴκῳ ὡς ἐν τάξει ἰδίας εἰκόνος γνωριζούσης ἕνα τινὰ εἶναι τὸν τοῦ παντὸς δημιουργόν. 3.35 Ὅθεν θαυμάσαντες ἐπὶ τῇ εἰκόνι οἱ ἄγγελοι εὐνοοῦντες τῷ Θεῷ περιέπουσι καὶ λειτουργοῦσι τῇ αὐτοῦ εἰκόνι, ὁμοίως καὶ πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις, ἥλιος ἄνωθεν φαίνων καὶ ἡμέραν ἀποτελῶν διὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, σελήνη καὶ ἀστέρες τὸ βαθύτατον σκότος ἐκ