Euthymius Zigabenus, Panoplia Dogmatica; Theodoretus, Historia Religiosa

hidden things; and congruent and breathing together? For I praise the one who said; and who is alien to what it is that has labored over these and leads them; the unceasing and unimpeded motion; is it not the craftsman of these; and having placed reason in all things; according to which the whole is carried and conducted; and who is the craftsman of these; is it not the one who made these and brought the things that were not into being? Whose is it to have been wronged by these and this; whose is it to keep and guard according to the reasons in which they were first established; of some other; or of the self-acting; of another, clearly, beyond the self-acting; and this, what else could it be, except God?

Against the same; from the same

book called Theognosia Knowledge of God:

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If the worldly things have come to be from the weighing of the simple elements; I mean earth; and water; and air; and fire; or from the so-called atoms; according to Epicurus, the generated will be taken away from the ungenerated; and the made will be incomparably better and more precious than the maker; and by as much as the dryness of the simple elements; and of the mentioned atoms, is different. And how would the things contrary by nature have run together without harm into the completion of one world; and how would they have mixed, having neither will nor reason; or how do the things above by necessity and the things entirely irrational, and lifeless and insensible; and it was necessary that the one to whom they allotted the advantage of essence, I mean the elephant; or if anything is greater than this, to that one more to allot the governing and royal power of all the lesser things; but indeed, man, who is left far behind by this in bodily size and strength, rules over it because of the reason; which he, from the reason-possessing creator entirely, became enriched. And how would the things moving at the height and as it happened, be said to have become ordered?

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Against the same Greeks; from the great Gregory the Theologian

from the discourse on the Holy Lights:

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For not only this is the mind; the one made for good works; for the glory