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On the Theophania

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843

Thus, and more particularly,—before these visible ornaments which are (but) the bodies of…

Thus, and more particularly,—before these visible ornaments which are (but) the bodies of this whole universe, and which have been fabricated from one (species of) matter,—let us express our wonder at that unseen and invisible Word, that Maker and Adorner of the exemplars of all things, who is the Only (begotten) Word of God: whom, the Maker of all, He who is beyond all, and above all being, generated of Himself as a ray of light from His own Godhead, and constituted Him both the Leader and Governour of this whole (world).

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