Philip Schaff

“ If matter is eternal, then it is the foe of no one: for that which exists for ever is impassible, and what is impassible is blessed; but what is blessed cannot be receptive of hatred, since, on account of its eternal creation, [1] it does not fear that it will be deprived of anything. ”

“ But how does not matter rather love the Creator, when [2] it evidently sends forth its fruits to nourish all who are made by Him? And how does it not fear Him as superior, as trembling through earthquakes it confesses, and as, though its billows ran high, yet, when the Teacher was sailing on it and commanded a calm, it immediately obeyed and became still? [3] What! did not the demons go out through fear and respect for Him, and others of them desired to enter into swine ”