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On the Theophania

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843

So also, of this universal world which is one, consisting nevertheless of many parts, it …

So also, of this universal world which is one, consisting nevertheless of many parts, it cannot be right to erect the many powers (visible within it) into makers; nor again to call these many Gods: but rather, to bless the one who abounds in every species of wisdom, and every sort of compounding (power): Him (I say) who is in truth “the power of God, and the wisdom of God;” who, by means of one (almighty) power and virtue, pervades, and remains in, the universal whole; who also gives establishment and life to all: and who, for the whole and singular of these bodies and elements, in their several situations, produced at once from himself, the several and various means of subsistence.