POEMANDEES. V. 37 



2. But the One ingenerate is plainly both unimagin- 

 able (a) and nonapparent; but imagining (6) all things, 

 He appears through all things and in all things, 1 and 

 especially in those in whom He may have wished to 

 appear. Do thou then, Child, Tat! pray first to the 

 Lord and Father, and Only and One and from Whom 

 the One, to be propitious (c), that thou mayst be able to 

 understand The God so great (d), if that but one ray of 

 Him may shine forth upon that thine understanding. For 

 understanding (e) alone discerns the nonapparent (/) as 

 being itself nonapparent ; if thou art able, it will appear 

 to the eyes of thy mind, O Tat ! for the Lord is without 

 envy (g) ; for He appeareth throughout the whole World. 

 Thou mayst be able to take understanding, to see it, and 

 lay hold of it with thine own hands, and to contemplate 

 the image of The God. But if that within thee is non- 

 apparent to thee, how shall He in Himself through thine 

 eyes appear to thee? 



3. If, however, thou wishest to see Him, consider the 

 Sun, consider the course of the Moon, consider the order 

 of the Stars; who is He maintaining this order? 2 for the 

 whole order is determined (h} by number and place. 3 The 

 Sun is the greatest god of the gods in heaven, to whom all 

 the heavenly gods yield as if to a king and dynasty. And 

 this the so vast (i), the greater than earth and sea, sub- 



(a) ei(pot!>ToifffoiffTo$. (&) QctvTotaiuv. (c) i'Aj^(f). (d) 

 (e) vows (the passage is corrupt). (/) TO xtpavss. 



(g) <Z<p0ovQs (ungrudging). (h) vrtpiapurTott. (i) 



1 " For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things " 

 (Horn. ii. 36). See to the same effect 1 Cor. viii. 6; Coloss. i. 16. 



2 " Which commandeth the Sun, and it riseth not, and sealeth up 

 the Stars ; which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon. 

 the waves of the Sea (' a$ sir >ti(povs,' as if upon floors/ Sept.); 

 which maketh Arcturus, Orion (" Earns pov, Sept.), and Pleiades, and 

 the chambers of the South" (Job ix. 7-9). "The Moon and the 

 Stars, which Thou hast ordained" (Ps. viii. 3). "He telleth the 

 number of the Stars; He calleth them all by their names" (Ps. 

 cxlvii. 4). 



3 See ante, ch. i. 14, and note there. 



