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For not only does the water above the heavens, as foremost in honor on account of the excellence belonging to it from virtue, fulfill the praise to God, but, "Praise Him," it says, "also you things from the earth, you sea-monsters and all you abysses."
So that even the abyss, which the allegorizers cast into the worse portion, was not judged to be cast-off by the psalmist, but was taken into the common choir of creation; and it too, according to the principles inherent in it, harmoniously completes the hymnody to the Maker.
He, then, who set before Himself a clear aim of the things made, went over the things made in their particulars, as completive of the end, by His own artistic principles, and approved them.
Since indeed a hand by itself, and an eye separately, and each of the members of a statue lying divided apart, would not appear beautiful to the chance beholder;
but when set down in their proper order, the result of the proportion, becoming manifest only at last, with difficulty makes itself known even to the layman.
The artificer, however, even before the composition, knows the beauty of each part, and praises the things severally, referring his thought to their end.
But indeed let our discourses concerning the second day come to a stop here, so as to afford the diligent hearers an opportunity for the examination of what they have heard, that if there be anything useful in them, this they may hold fast in memory, and through diligent meditation, as through a kind of digestion, await the distribution of the profitable things;
and to those occupied with life's affairs, to give leisure, that during the intervening time, having disposed of their cares, with a soul pure from anxieties they may come to the evening banquet of the discourses.
And may God, who created the great things and ordained these small things to be spoken, give you understanding in all things of His own truth, that from the things seen you may conceive the Invisible, and from the magnitude and beauty of the creatures may take up the fitting glory concerning Him who created us.
"For the invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, both His eternal power and Godhead"; so that in earth, and in air, and in heaven, and in water, and in night, and in day, and in all things seen, we may take up clear reminders of our Benefactor.
For neither shall we give any occasion to sins, nor leave a place for the enemy in our hearts, having God dwelling within us through continual remembrance;