Augustine of Hippo, on Ps 148:5

“Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created.”

“After all, what is beyond hoping for from God, to whom nothing is difficult? He does great things just as he does small ones; he raises the dead, just as he creates the living. If a painter can make a mouse with the same art as he makes an elephant—different subjects, one and the same art—how much more God, who "spoke and they were made, commanded and they were created"? What can be difficult for him to make who makes with a word? He created the angels above the heavens with ease, with equal ease the luminaries in the heavens, with equal ease the fishes in the sea, with equal ease the trees and animals on the earth, great things with the same ease as small. It was supremely easy for him to make everything out of nothing—is it astonishing that he gave some old people a son?”

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