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| Chapter VI.—God is Known by His Works.
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Chapter VI.—God is Known by His Works.
Consider, O man, His works,—the timely rotation
of the seasons, and the changes of temperature; the regular march of
the stars; the well-ordered course of days and nights, and months,
and years; the various beauty of seeds, and plants, and fruits; and the
divers species533
| 533 Literally,
“propagation.” | of quadrupeds, and birds, and
reptiles, and fishes, both of the rivers and of the sea; or consider
the instinct implanted in these animals to beget and rear offspring,
not for their own profit, but for the use of man; and the providence
with which God provides nourishment for all flesh, or the subjection
in which He has ordained that all things subserve mankind. Consider,
too, the flowing of sweet fountains and never-failing rivers, and the
seasonable supply of dews, and showers, and rains; the manifold movement
of the heavenly bodies, the morning star rising and heralding the approach
of the perfect luminary; and the constellation of Pleiades, and Orion,
and Arcturus, and the orbit of the other stars that circle through the
heavens, all of which the manifold wisdom of
God has called by names of their
own. He is God alone who made light out of darkness, and brought
forth light from His treasures, and formed the chambers of the south
wind,534
and the treasure-houses of the deep, and the bounds of the seas, and
the treasuries of snows and hail-storms, collecting the waters in the
storehouses of the deep, and the darkness in His treasures, and bringing
forth the sweet, and desirable, and pleasant light out of His treasures;
“who causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth:
He maketh lightnings for the rain;”535
who sends forth His thunder
to terrify, and foretells by the lightning the peal of the thunder,
that no soul may faint with the sudden shock; and who so moderates the
violence of the lightning as it flashes out of heaven, that it does not
consume the earth; for, if the lightning were allowed all its power,
it would burn up the earth; and were the thunder allowed all its power,
it would overthrow all the works that are therein.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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