Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus 1.4

God has no beginning, for He is uncreated, and He remains unchanging, because He is immortal. He is called God because He established all things on His own firm foundation and because He actively sustains them. To sustain means to operate, to move, to energize, to nourish, to provide for, to govern, and to give life to everything. He is Lord because He exercises authority over all things, Father because He existed before all things, and Creator and Maker because He founded and fashioned all things. He is the Highest because He stands above all things, and He is All-Powerful because He Himself holds and encompasses all things. The heights of heaven, the depths of the abyss, and the ends of the earth lie in His hand, and there is no place where He rests. The heavens are His work, the earth His creation, the sea His formation; humanity is His mold and image. The sun, moon, and stars are His elements, brought into existence for signs, seasons, days, and years, to serve and labor for humankind. God made all things out of nothing into being so that His greatness might be known and understood through His works.