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of all things, in whom all things were created, things in heaven and things on earth, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, (1080) or powers, all things were created from him and through him and for him. For holding the *logoi* of created things, subsisting before the ages, by his good will, according to them, he brought into being from non-being the visible and invisible creation, having made and making all things by his Word and Wisdom at the fitting time, both things universal and things particular. For we believe that a *logos* of the creation of angels precedes it, a *logos* of each of the essences and powers that fill the world above, a *logos* of men, a *logos* of everything that has received its being from God, that I may not speak of each particular thing, the same one being ineffable and incomprehensible by his infinite superiority in himself, and beyond all creation and the existing and intelligible difference and distinction within it, and the same one being shown and multiplied in a manner befitting his goodness in all things that come from him, according to the proportion of each, and summing up all things in himself, according to whom is both to be and to remain, and from whom created things are as they have been created, and for whom they have been created, and abiding and moving they partake of God. For all things partake because they have come to be from God, in proportion to God, either according to intellect, or reason, or sense-perception, or vital motion, or an essential and habitual fitness, as seems right to the great and God-revealing Dionysius the Areopagite. Therefore each of the intellectual and rational beings, both angels and men, by the very *logos* according to which it was created, which is in God and is toward God, is called and is a portion of God, because of its pre-existing *logos* in God, as has been said. Therefore, if it should be moved according to it, it will be in God, in whom the *logos* of its being pre-exists as beginning and cause, and if it should not wish to grasp anything else before its own beginning out of desire, it does not flow away from God, but rather by its ascent toward him becomes God and is called a portion of God by partaking of God in a fitting manner, as having, according to nature, wisely and rationally through a seemly motion, grasped its own beginning and cause, no longer having anywhere else to be moved after its own beginning and its ascent and restoration to the *logos* according to which it was created, or how to be moved, since its motion toward the divine purpose has clearly taken the divine purpose itself as its end. As Saint Basil also makes clear, in his commentary on the holy prophet Isaiah, saying thus: "But the true Sabbath is the rest laid up for the people of God, which, because they are true, God endures, and one arrives at those Sabbaths of rest, by which the world has been crucified, having departed, that is, from worldly things, and having arrived at its own place of spiritual rest, in which he who has arrived will no longer be moved from his own place, since there is quiet and tranquility (1081) about that state. The place, therefore, of all who are deemed worthy of such blessedness is God, according to what is written: Be to me a God who is a defender, and a strong place to save me." In whom surely the *logoi* of all things are fixed, according to which he is said to know all things before their generation, as being in him and with him, with the very truth of all things. And if all things, both those that are and those that will be, were not brought into being at the same time as their *logoi*, or when they were known by God, but each at its opportune time, according to the Creator's wisdom, being fittingly created according to their *logoi* and receiving to be in themselves by energy. Since he is always Creator in energy, but they exist in potentiality, but not yet in energy; because it is not possible for the infinite and the finite to exist at the same time, nor will any argument appear to show that substance and that which is beyond substance can exist at the same time, and to bring into the same the measured with the unmeasured, and the relative with the unrelated, and that which has nothing upon

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τῶν ὅλων, ἐν ᾧ ἐκτίσθη τά πάντα τά ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς καί τά ἐπί τῆς γῆς, εἴτε ὀρατά, εἴτε ἀόρατα, εἴτε θρόνοι, εἴτε κυριότητες, εἴτε ἀρχαί, (1080) εἴτε ἐξουσίαι, πάντα ἐξ αὐτοῦ καί δι᾿ αὐτοῦ καί εἰς αὐτόν ἔκτισται. Τούς γάρ λόγους τῶν γεγονότων ἔχων πρό τῶν αἰώνων ὑφεστῶτας βουλήσει ἀγαθῇ κατ᾿ αὐτούς τήν τε ὁρατήν καί ἀόρατον ἐκ τοῦ μή ὄντος ὑπεστήσατο κτίσιν, λόγῳ καί σοφίᾳ τά πάντα κατά τόν δέοντα χρόνον ποιήσας τε καί ποιῶν, τά καθόλου τε καί τά καθ᾿ ἕκαστον. Λόγον γάρ ἀγγέλων δημιουργίας προκαθηγεῖσθαι πιστεύομεν, λόγον ἑκάστης τῶν συμπληρουσῶν τόν ἄνω κόσμον οὐσιῶν καί δυνάμεων, λόγον ἀνθρώπων, λόγον παντός τῶν ἐκ Θεοῦ τό εἶναι λαβόντων, ἵνα μή τά καθ᾿ ἕκαστον λέγω, τόν αὐτόν μέν ἀπείρῳ δι᾿ ἑαυτόν ὑπεροχῇ ἄφραστον ὄντα καί ἀκατανόητον, καί πάσης ἐπέκεινα κτίσεως, καί τῆς κατ᾿ αὐτήν οὔσης καί νοουμένης διαφορᾶς καί διακρίσεως, καί τόν αὐτόν ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐξ αὐτοῦ κατά τήν ἑκάστου ἀναλογίαν ἀγαθοπρεπῶς δεικνύμενόν τε καί πληθυνόμενον, καί εἰς ἑαυτόν τά πάντα ἀνακεφαλαιούμενον, καθ᾿ ὅν τό τε εἶναι καί τό διαμένειν, καί ἐξ οὗ τά γεγονότα ὡς γέγονε, καί ἐφ᾿ ᾧ γέγονε, καί μένοντα καί κινούμενα μετέχει Θεοῦ. Πάντα γάρ μετέχει διά τό ἐκ Θεοῦ γεγενῆσθαι, ἀναλόγως Θεοῦ, ἤ κατά νοῦν, ἤ λόγον, ἤ αἴσθησιν, ἤ κίνησιν ζωτικήν, ἤ οὐσιώδη καί ἑκτικήν ἐπιτηδειότητα, ὡς τῷ μεγάλῳ καί θεοφάντορι ∆ιονυσίῳ δοκεῖ τῷ Ἀρεοπαγίτῃ. Ἕκαστον οὖν τῶν νοερῶν τε καί λογικῶν ἀγγέλων τε καί ἀνθρώπων αὐτῷ τῷ καθ᾿ ὅν ἐκτίσθη λόγῳ τῷ ἐν τῷ Θεῷ ὄντι, καί πρός τόν Θεόν ὄντι, μοῖρα καί λέγεται καί ἔστι Θεοῦ, διά τόν αὐτοῦ προόντα ἐν τῷ Θεῷ , καθώς εἴρηται, λόγον. Ἀμέλει τοι, καί εἰ κατ᾿ αὐτόν κινηθείη, ἐν τῷ Θεῷ γενήσεται, ἐν ᾧ ὁ τοῦ εἶναι αὐτοῦ λόγος προένεστιν, ὡς ἀρχή καί αἰτία, κἄν μηδενός ἄλλου πρό τῆς ἰδίας ἀρχῆς κατά πόθον ἐπιλαβέσθαι θελήσοι, οὐκ ἀπορῥέει Θεοῦ, ἀλλά μᾶλλον τῇ πρός αὐτόν ἀνατάσει Θεός γίνεται καί μοῖρα Θεοῦ λέγεται τῷ μετέχειν προσηκόντως Θεοῦ, ὡς κατά φύσιν σοφῶς τε καί λελογισμένως δι᾿ εὐπρεποῦς κινήσεως τῆς οἰκείας ἐπιλαβόμενος ἀρχῆς καί αἰτίας, οὐκ ἔχων λοιπόν ἄλλοθί ποι μετά τήν ἰδίαν ἀρχήν καί τήν πρός τόν καθ᾿ ὅν ἐκτίσθη λόγον ἄνοδόν τε καί ἀποκατάστασιν κινηθῆναι, ἤ πῶς κινηθῆναι, τῆς ἐπί τῷ θείῳ δηλονότι σκοπῷ κινήσεως αὐτοῦ αὐτόν πέρας λαβούσης τόν θεῖον σκοπόν. Ὡς δηλοῖ καί ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος, ἐν τῇ εἰς τόν ἅγιον προφήτητν Ἡσαΐαν ἑρμηνείᾳ, λέγων οὕτως· "Σάββατα δέ ἀληθῆ ἡ ἀποκειμένη ἀνάπαυσις τῷ λαῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἅπερ διά τό ἀληθῆ εἶναι ἀνέχεται ὁ Θεός καί φθάνει γε ἐπ᾿ ἐκεῖνα τά Σάββατα τῆς ἀναπαύσεως, παρ᾿ ὧ ὁ κόσμος ἐσταύρωται, ἀποστάς δηλονότι τῶν κοσμικῶν, καί ἐπί τόν ἴδιον τόπον τῆς πνευματικῆς ἀναπαύσεως καταντήσας, ἐν ᾧ ὁ γενόμενος οὐκ ἔτι κινηθήσεται ἀπό τοῦ ἰδίου τόπου, ἡσυχίας καί ἀταραξίας (1081) περί τήν κατάστασιν ἐκείνην ὑπαρχούσης· πάντων οὖν τόπος τῶν ἀξιουμένων τῆς τοιαύτης μακαριότητος ἐστιν ὁ Θεός κατά τό γεγραμμένον· Γενοῦ μοι εἰς Θεόν ὑπερασπιστήν καί εἰς τόπον ὀχυρόν τοῦ σῶσαί με." Παρ᾿ ᾧ βεβαίως πάντων οἱ λόγοι πεπήγασι καθ᾿ οὕς καί γινώσκειν τά πάντα πρίν γενέσεως αὐτῶν λέγεται, ὡς ἐν αὐτῷ καί παρ᾿ αὐτῷ ὄντων, αὐτῇ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ τῶν πάντων. Κἄν εἰ αὐτά τά πάντα, τά τε ὄντα καί τά ἐσόμενα, οὐχ ἅμα τοῖς ἑαυτῶν λόγοις, ἤ τῷ γνωσθῆναι ὑπό Θεοῦ, εἰς τό εἶναι παρήχθησαν, ἀλλ᾿ ἕκαστα τῷ ἐπιτηδείῳ καιρῷ κατά τήν τοῦ ∆ημιουργοῦ σοφίαν πρεπόντως κατά τούς ἑαυτῶν λόγους δημιουργούμενα καί καθ᾿ ἑαυτά εἶναι τῇ ἐνεργείᾳ λαμβάνῃ. Ἐπειδή ὁ μέν ἀεί κατ᾿ ἐνέργειάν ἐστι ∆ημιουργός, τά δέ δυνάμει μέν ἐστιν, ἐνεργείᾳ δέ οὐκ ἔτι· ὅτι μηδέ οἷόν τε τῶν ἅμα εἶναι τό ἄπειρον καί τά πεπερασμένα, οὐδέ τις δεῖξαι λόγος ἀναφανήσεται τῶν ἄμα εἶναι δύνασθαι τήν οὐσίαν καί τό ὑπερούσιον, καί εἰς ταυτόν ἀγαγεῖν τῷ ἐν μέτρῳ τό ἄμετρον, καί τῷ ἐν σχέσει τό ἄσχετον, καί τό μηδέν ἔχον ἐπ᾿