Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us all? Why then do we deal treacherously, every man against his brother, and profane the Covenant of our fathers?
–Malachi 2.10
Traveling through the creation, the virtuous man is led to the apprehension of a Master of the creation; . . . when he observes the beauty of this material sunlight, he grasps by analogy the beauty of the real sunlight.
– St Gregory of Nyssa
