10. What should have been the effect of
these wonders? Should the Creator have been blasphemed? Or
worshipped rather? And so far I have said noticing of the unseen
works of His wisdom. Observe, I pray you, the spring, and the
flowers of every kind in all their likeness still diverse one from
another; the deepest crimson of the rose, and the purest whiteness of
the lily: for these spring from the same rain and the same earth,
and who makes them to differ? Who fashions them? Observe,
pray, the exact care: from the one substance of the tree there is
part for shelter, and part for divers fruits: and the Artificer
is One. Of the same vine part is for burning For καῦσιν,
“burning,” Morel and Milles, with Cod. Coisl., read
καῦστιν, a rare word
explained by Hesychius as the “growth” or
“foliage” of the vine: but this is fully expressed in
what follows, and the reading καῦσιν is confirmed
by Virgil (Georg. ii. 408): “Primus devecta
cremato sarmenta” (Reischl)., and part for shoots, and part for leaves,
and part for tendrils, and part for clusters.