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having formed by the plastic art eyes again in another way, and cheeks likewise, and ears and mouth and nose, and chest and shoulders, then, since many forms and limbs and parts have been created in one body, must one think the makers are as many, or praise the craftsman of the whole at once, who has fashioned the whole with one reasoning and one power? 4.5.11 Why then, therefore, in the case of the whole universe, though it is one, but subsists from very many parts, must one suppose many creative powers, and name many gods, and not rather confess the one true power of God and wisdom of God, which with one power and one virtue both makes all things subsist and gives them life, and makes its supply manifold for all things? So also one and the same ray of sunlight at once and at the same time illuminates the air, gives light to the eyes, warms the touch, makes the earth fertile, makes plants grow, establishes time, leads the stars, travels around the heaven, brightens the universe, manifests the clear power of God in the whole, and accomplishes all these things with one turn of nature, 4.5.12 and the nature of fire purifies gold, but melts lead, and dissolves wax, but dries clay, but roasts wood, accomplishing so many things with one caustic power. In this way indeed also the heavenly Word of God, the creator of the sun and heaven and the entire universe, being present to all things and pervading all things with active power, showers light upon the sun and moon and stars from his own eternal power, and having established heaven in the beginning as a most fitting image of his own greatness, he maintains it for ever, and with one and the same creative art he fills the powers beyond heaven and the universe, of angels and spirits, of intellectual and rational beings, with life and light and wisdom and all virtue, and all that is beautiful and good, from his own treasures, and he never ceases to provide substance to the elements, and mixtures and blends and species and forms and shapes and myriad qualities in animals and plants and souls and bodies both rational and irrational, variously adorning them at different times in different ways, and supplying all things to all at once with one power, and bestowing upon all men a mind capable of discerning and contemplating his wisdom, and he plainly presents to all and clearly shows one universe, the work of one world-making Word. 4.5.13 Such an artist, an only-begotten Son of his own will and creator of all things, the most high God and Father, the creator even of him, first of all things begat, establishing through him and in him the creative principles of things that were to be, and casting into him the seeds of the constitution and administration of all things. 4.5.14 Do you not see with your eyes the entire universe, which one heaven encompasses, and the myriad dances and revolutions of the stars around it? Again, one sun, and not more, by the excess of its light conceals the glitterings of all things. 4.5.15 So indeed, as the Father is one, it was necessary for the Son also to be one. But if someone should find fault that there are not more, it would be time to accuse such a one that he did not also establish more suns and moons and universes and myriad other things, as one attempting in the manner of a madman to pervert the right and well-ordered things of nature. 4.6.1 In this way, then, as in visible things one sun illuminates the entire sensible world, so indeed also in intelligible things the immortal and incorporeal powers, the intellectual and rational beings, like myriad stars and luminaries, the one perfect Word of God illuminates; since it was also necessary that the universal law over all things be one, and the Word of God who is in all things and pervades all things, so that in this also the likeness of the image to the Father might be preserved in every way, both in virtue, and in power and substance, and in the number of the monad and unity. and since the substance of created things was destined to be otherwise of many forms and many kinds, 4.6.2 and through myriad and various changes at different times on account of its own

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