For if even Plato, who is in such repute among the Greeks, says that its author, beholding the universe tempest-tossed, and in peril of going down to the place of chaos, takes his seat at the helm of the soul and comes to the rescue and corrects all its calamities; what is there incredible in what we say, that, mankind being in error, the Word lighted down upon it and appeared as man, that He might save it in its tempest by His guidance and goodness?

Εἰ γὰρ δὴ καὶ ὁ παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησι θαυμαζόμενος Πλάτων φησὶν ὅτι ὁρῶν τὸν κόσμον ὁ γεννήσας αὐτὸν χειμαζόμενον καὶ κινδυνεύοντα εἰς τὸν τῆς ἀνομοιότητος δύνειν τόπον͵ καθίσας ἐπὶ τοὺς οἴακας τῆς ψυχῆς βοηθεῖ͵ καὶ πάντα τὰ πταίσματα διορθοῦται, τί ἄπιστον λέγεται παρ΄ ἡμῖν͵ εἰ πλανωμένης τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος ἐκάθισεν ὁ Λόγος ἐπὶ ταύτην͵ καὶ ἄνθρωπος ἐπεφάνη͵ ἵνα χειμαζομένην αὐτὴν περισώσῃ διὰ τῆς κυβερνήσεως αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀγαθότητος; 

Cf. GREGORY OF NYSSA : The Mystery of the Cross, Christ is always born in our soul ||| ROMANOS MELODOS : Rejoice O bride unmarried ||| MAXIMUS CONFESSOR : He divided wisely the ages ||| SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN : When shall the Day of the Lord come?, Don't put yourself in despair ||| GREGORY PALAMAS : Calling everything near Him ||| PAPATSONIS : Scheme, Wisdom