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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.

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