32. 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 or 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.