Who, seeing things contrary by nature joined together and possessing harmonious agreement—for example, fire mixed with cold and dry with wet, not resisting one another but making one body as though from one—would not reflect that outside them there is one who joined them? Who, seeing winter yielding to spring, spring to summer, and summer to autumn, and seeing that although these are contrary by nature—one chills, another burns, another nourishes, another causes things to wither—they nevertheless all provide a balanced and harmless benefit to people, would not understand that there is someone greater than these who gives balance to all and governs all, even if he does not see Him?
Who, seeing the clouds held up in the air and the weight of waters bound in the clouds, does not conceive of the One who bound these things and commanded them to be so? Or who, seeing the earth itself, naturally very heavy, established upon water and remaining motionless upon what naturally moves, will not consider that there is One who ordered and made these things—God? Who, seeing the earth’s fruitfulness in season, rains from heaven, inflows of rivers, springs welling up, and animals born from unlike parents, and seeing that these things happen not always but at appointed seasons—and, in short, observing among unlike and contrary things the equal and consistent order they produce—would not reflect that there is one Power that ordered them and governs them well, as it sees fit?
For by themselves these things could neither hold together nor ever appear, because their natures are contrary to one another. Water is naturally heavy and flows downward, while clouds are light and belong to things that are light and rise upward; yet we see the heavier water carried in the clouds. Again, earth is very heavy, while water is lighter than it; yet the heavier is supported by the lighter, and the earth does not fall but stands motionless. Male is not the same as female, yet they come together into one, and from both is produced one generation of a living creature like them. To sum up, cold is contrary to heat, and wet fights against dry; yet when they come together they do not rebel against one another, but in harmony they produce one body and the generation of all things.
Who, seeing things contrary by nature joined together and possessing harmonious agreement—for example, fire mixed with cold and dry with wet, not resisting one another but making one body as though from one—would not reflect that outside them there is one who joined them? Who, seeing winter yielding to spring, spring to summer, and summer to autumn, and seeing that although these are contrary by nature—one chills, another burns, another nourishes, another causes things to wither—they nevertheless all provide a balanced and harmless benefit to people, would not understand that there is someone greater than these who gives balance to all and governs all, even if he does not see Him?
Who, seeing the clouds held up in the air and the weight of waters bound in the clouds, does not conceive of the One who bound these things and commanded them to be so? Or who, seeing the earth itself, naturally very heavy, established upon water and remaining motionless upon what naturally moves, will not consider that there is One who ordered and made these things—God?
Who, seeing the earth’s fruitfulness in season, rains from heaven, inflows of rivers, springs welling up, and animals born from unlike parents, and seeing that these things happen not always but at appointed seasons—and, in short, observing among unlike and contrary things the equal and consistent order they produce—would not reflect that there is one Power that ordered them and governs them well, as it sees fit?
For by themselves these things could neither hold together nor ever appear, because their natures are contrary to one another. Water is naturally heavy and flows downward, while clouds are light and belong to things that are light and rise upward; yet we see the heavier water carried in the clouds. Again, earth is very heavy, while water is lighter than it; yet the heavier is supported by the lighter, and the earth does not fall but stands motionless. Male is not the same as female, yet they come together into one, and from both is produced one generation of a living creature like them. To sum up, cold is contrary to heat, and wet fights against dry; yet when they come together they do not rebel against one another, but in harmony they produce one body and the generation of all things.