The weight of sacred history: the Church, the world, angels, and God himself

Now if anyone wishes to weigh the weight and moment of sacred history, what matters of greater weight and moment can be imagined than those which pertain not only to some nation and commonwealth, but to the whole Church which God selected for himself out of the world — nay, to the universal world, to the angels who inhabit Heaven, and to God himself, who is the first cause of all things? These are the things about which sacred Scripture's history turns. For Scripture tells us what were this universe's beginnings and cradles, and how God once founded all things and ordered them to exist; whence the human race was born and propagated; how it spread through the whole earth; and what were at the beginning the divisions of nations and of tongues. It narrates the appearances of angelic spirits and their frequent colloquies with men, and God's own admirable deeds in ruling and guarding the Church and procuring the human race's salvation. If anyone compares Greek or Roman histories with these, he will find nothing whose moment and gravity can in any part match them.