God spoke but one Word, and in virtue of that in a moment were made the sun, moon and that
innumerable multitude of stars, with their differences in brightness, motion
and influence. […] A single word of God’s filled the air with birds, and the
sea with fishes, made spring from the earth all the plants and all the beasts
we see. […] All these together are
called the universe, perhaps because all their diversity is reduced to unity as
though one said unidiverse, that is,
one and diverse, one with diversity and diverse with unity.
--St. Francis de Sales, Treatise
on the Love of God, Bk. II, Ch.II
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