Bringing Into Being

Εἰ τα μὴ ὄντα ποιεῖ γενέσθαι Θεὸς, καὶ τοῖς μηδαμοῦ μηδαμῶς φαινομένοις χαρίζεται τὸ εἴναι, πολλῷ μᾰλλον τὰ ὄντα ἀνορθώσασθαι δύναται. Ἅγιος Νειλος, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΣΛϚ’ Σοφιανῳ Σκολαριῳ Source: Migne PG 79.169c

If God brings into being what is not, 1 and grants being to those things which appear to be nothing at all, how much more is He able to raise up the things which are? Saint Nilus of Sinai, Book 1, Letter 236 to Sophianus the Scholarius 1 Rom 4.17