 I offer these things as a hymn to You, Lord (despota), Creator (dêmiourgos) of the whole cosmos and of the simple bodies in it, and to those who have been made by You, desiring to behold the greatness of Your works and proclaim it to the worthy so that, thinking nothing mean or merely human about You, we might kneel down to You because of the superiority which You have over all the things created by You. (Simplicius, In Cael. 731.25–29, translated by I. Mueller)