What is it that gave order to things of heaven and things of earth, and all those things that move in the air and in the water, or rather to what was in existence before these, viz., to heaven and earth and air and the elements of fire and water? What Various reading, Who. was it that mingled and distributed these? What was it that set these in motion and keeps them in their unceasing and unhindered course Greg. Naz., Orat. 34.? Was it not the Artificer of these things, and He Who hath implanted in everything the law whereby the universe is carried on and directed? Who then is the Artificer of these things? Is it not He Who created them and brought them into existence. For we shall not attribute such a power to the spontaneous The Greek is τῳ αὐτομάτῳ, to the automatic; perhaps = to the accidental, or, to chance.. For, supposing their coming into existence was due to the spontaneous; what of the power that put all in order Or, Whose was the disposing of them in order?? And let us grant this, if you please. What of that which has preserved and kept them in harmony with the original laws of their existence Or, Whose are the preserving of them, and the keeping of them in accordance with the principles under which they were first placed?? Clearly it is something quite distinct from the spontaneous παρα τὸ αὐτόματον; or, quite other than the spontaneous, or,than chance.. And what could this be other than Deity Athan., De Incarn. Verbi, near the beginning. Greg. Naz., Orat. 34.?