מי יורש קנייני אלוה ל״בWho is the Heir of Divine Things 32
א׳
1[157] For He judged equally about the little and the great, to use Moses’ words (Deut. 1:17), when He generated and shaped each thing, nor was He led by the insignificance of the material to diminish, or by its splendour to increase, the art which He applied.
ב׳
2[158] For all craftsmen of repute, whatever materials they use, whether they be costly or of the cheapest, wish so to use them, that their work shall be worthy of praise. In fact people have been known to produce a higher class of work with the cheaper than with the more costly substances; their feeling for beauty was enhanced and by additional science they wished to compensate for inferiority of material.
ג׳
3[159] But with God no kind of material is held in honour, and therefore He bestowed upon them all the same art, and in equal measure. And so in the holy Scriptures we read, “God saw all things which He had made and behold, they were very good” (Gen. 1:31), and things which receive the same praise must be of equal honour in the eyes of the praiser.
ד׳
4[160] Now God praised not the material which He had used for His work, material soul-less, discordant and dissoluble, and indeed in itself perishable, irregular, unequal, but He praised the works of His own art, which were consummated through a single exercise of power equal and uniform, and through knowledge ever one and the same. And thus by the rules of proportion everything was accounted similar and equal to everything else, according to the principle which His art and His knowledge followed.
