Bonaventure, on Exod 33:19

“He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.”

“Turning back again, let us say: because therefore the most pure and absolute being, which is simply being, is the first and the last, therefore it is the origin and consummating end of all things. Because eternal and most present, therefore it encompasses and enters all durations, existing as it were simultaneously as their center and circumference. Because most simple and greatest, therefore it is wholly within all things and wholly beyond all things, and therefore "it is an intelligible sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." Because most actual and most immutable, therefore "remaining stable, it gives motion to all things." Because most perfect and immense, therefore it is within all things, not enclosed; beyond all things, not excluded; above all things, not elevated; below all things, not cast down. Because indeed it is supremely one and all-encompassing, therefore it is all things in all, although all things are many and it itself is nothing but one; and this because through most simple unity, most serene truth, and most sincere goodness there is in it all power, all exemplarity, and all communicability; and therefore from him and through him and in him are all things, and this because he is omnipotent, omniscient, and in every way good, which to see perfectly is to be blessed, as was said to Moses: I will show you all good.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.