God
God feeds, clothes and looks after what he has made, and that care shows he is good and the same God who made the world.
After this, or before this, when you say he too has his own condition and his own world and his own heaven—about that third heaven we shall see if we also come to discussing your apostle—meanwhile, whatever his substance is, it ought of course to have appeared with its own god.
Therefore those beginning examination into the known God—if it is asked in what condition he is known—will need to begin from his works, which are prior to the human, so that at once with him his goodness, ascertained and thence constituted and prescribed, may suggest to us some sense of understanding how the following…
He disdained, I suppose, to imitate our God’s order as of one displeasing, as of one especially to be refuted; as new he wanted to come newly—a son before the father’s profession and sent before the sender’s authority—so as to introduce even a most monstrous faith whereby Christ would be believed to have come before it…
He sends the disciples to preach God’s kingdom. Does he even here edit whose? He forbids them to carry anything for food or clothing on the way.
Who would not want us to take care of the soul regarding food and the body regarding clothing, except the One who foresaw these needs for humanity in advance and, by supplying them, rightly forbids anxiety over them as a rival to his own generosity?