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a divine nature and wisdom, not even in all things; for how will that which is none of all things be the cause of all things? He is everywhere and in all things and fills all things wholly in substance, in nature, in hypostasis likewise. God is everywhere as life providing life; for what at all was even produced, which He Himself did not introduce? Consider for me even to the gnat and the spider's web!

For from where is so much thread supplied to it, tell me? Or it does not spin, but without effort weaves each day, wiser than fishermen, and it is more so than all fowlers, spreading out the threads and binding them from afar and finally in the midst of these it weaves the trap in the air like a net; and sitting down, it awaits the prey, if somewhere from some place some winged thing, falling into it, will be caught. He, therefore, who by providence extends through all these things, how is He not in all things, how is He not with all things? (178) Yes, He is in the midst of all things, yes, and He is outside of all things, yes, and He Himself is intelligible light, illuminating souls, yes, and He is unsetting; where can He be hidden, who fills all things? But if you do not see Him, know that you are blind and in the midst of light in darkness

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φύσις θεία καί σοφία, οὐδ᾿ ἐν πᾶσι˙ πῶς γάρ ἔσται τό οὐδέν ὑπάρχον πάντων, αἴτιον δέ ὄν τῶν πάντων; πανταχοῦ ἐστι καί ἐν πᾶσι καί πληροῖ τά πάντα ὅλως κατ᾿ οὐσίαν, κατά φύσιν, καθ᾿ ὑπόστασιν ὡσαύτως. Πανταχοῦ Θεός ὑπάρχει ὡς ζωή ζωήν παρέχων˙ τί γάρ ὅλως καί παρήχθη, ὅ αὐτός οὐ παρεισῆξε; Μέχρι κώνωπός μοι νόει καί ἱστοῦ τοῦ τῆς ἀράχνης!

Πόθεν γάρ τοσοῦτον ταύτῃ χορηγεῖται νῆμα, λέγε; Ἤ οὐ νήθει, ἀλλ᾿ ἀκόπως καθ᾿ ἑκάστην ἐξυφαίνει, ἁλιέων σοφωτέρα, ἰξευτῶν τε πάντων πέλει, ἐξαπλοῦσα τούς ἱμάντας καί συνδοῦσα ἐκ μακρόθεν καί ἐσχάτως μέσον τούτων ὥσπερ δίκτυον ὑφαίνει εἰς ἀέρα τήν παγίδα˙ καί αὐτή καθεζομένη ἀπεκδέχεται τήν θήραν, εἴ που ποθέν παρεμπέσαν ἁλισθήσεται πτηνόν τι. Ὁ οὖν μέχρι τούτων πάντων τῇ προνοίᾳ συνδιήκων πῶς οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τοῖς πᾶσι, πῶς οὐκ ἔστι μετά πάντων; (178) Ναί, τῶν πάντων μέσον ἔστι, ναί, καί ἔξω πάντων ἔστιν, ναί, καί φῶς αὐτός ὑπάρχει νοητόν, ψυχάς φωτίζον, ναί, καί ἄδυτος ὑπάρχει˙ ποῦ κρυβῇ πληρῶν τά πάντα; Εἰ δέ σύ τοῦτον οὐ βλέπεις, γνῶθι σέ τυφλόν ὑπάρχειν καί φωτός ἐν μέσῳ σκότους