"God loves all existing things, and loathes nothing which He has made, for He would not have created anything in hatred. We have, moreover, read the declaration: "And You spare all things, because they are Yours, O lover of souls. For Your incorruptible Spirit is in all. And therefore those also who have fallen away for a little time You rebuke, and admonish, reminding them of their sins." (Wisdom 11:26, 12:1-2) How can we assert [as Celsus accuses us Christians of] that "God, leaving the regions of heaven, and the whole world, and despising this great earth, takes up His abode among us only," when we have found that all thoughtful persons must say in their prayers, that "the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord," (Psalm 33:5) and that "the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh;" (Sirach 18:13) and that God, being good, "makes His sun to arise upon the evil and the good, and sends His rain upon the just and the unjust;" and that He encourages us to a similar course of action, in order that we may become His sons, (Matthew 5:43-48) and teaches us to extend the benefits which we enjoy, so far as in our power, to all men? (Gal 6:10, 1 The 5:15) For He Himself is said to be "the Saviour of all men, especially of them that believe;" (1 Tim 4:10) and His Christ to be "the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (1 John 2:2) ... "God commends His love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8) ... for the sake of sinners in all parts of the world"