For while our present life is active amongst a variety of multiform conditions, and the things we have relations with are numerous, for instance, time, air, locality, food and drink, clothing, sunlight, lamplight, and other necessities of life, none of which, many though they be, are God,-that blessed state which we hope for is in need of none of these things, but the Divine Being will become all, and instead of all, to us, distributing Himself proportionately to every need of that existence. It is plain, too, from the Holy Scripture that God becomes, to those who deserve it, locality, and home, and clothing, and food, and drink, and light, and riches, and dominion, and everything thinkable and nameable that goes to make our life happy. But He that becomes all things will be in all things too.

Τῆς γὰρ ἐν τῷ παρόντι ζωῆς ποικίλως τε καὶ πολυειδῶς ἡμῖν ἐνεργουμένης͵ πολλὰ μέν ἐστιν ὧν μετέχομεν͵ οἷον χρόνου καὶ ἀέρος καὶ τόπου͵ βρώσεώς τε καὶ πόσεως͵ καὶ σκεπασμάτων͵ καὶ ἡλίου καὶ λύχνου καὶ ἄλλων πρὸς τὴν χρείαν τοῦ βίου πολλῶν͵ ὧν οὐδέν ἐστιν ὁ Θεός· ἡ δὲ προσδοκωμένη μακαριότης μὲν οὐδενός ἐστιν ἐπιδεὴς͵ πάντα δὲ ἡμῖν καὶ ἀντὶ πάντων ἡ θεία γενήσεται φύσις πρὸς πᾶσαν χρείαν τῆς ζωῆς ἐκείνης ἑαυτὴν ἁρμοδίως ἐπιμερίζουσα. Καὶ τοῦτο δῆλόν ἐστιν ἐκ τῶν θείων λόγων͵ ὅτι καὶ τόπος γίνεται ὁ Θεὸς τοῖς ἀξίοις καὶ οἶκος καὶ ἔνδυμα καὶ τροφὴ καὶ πόσις καὶ φῶς καὶ πλοῦτος καὶ βασιλεία καὶ πᾶν νόημά τε καὶ ὄνομα τῶν πρὸς τὴν ἀγαθὴν ἡμῖν συντελούντων ζωήν. Ὁ δὲ πάντα γινόμενος καὶ ἐν πᾶσι γίνεται. 

Cf. ORPHICA : From man you became God ||| PLATO : Becoming like God ||| EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS : Τhe Christian way ||| IGNATIUS THEOPHORUS : Martyrdom ||| GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN : God with Gods is being united ||| BASIL THE GREAT : Love can not be taught ||| DIONYSIOS SOLOMOS : Free Besieged, Hymn to Liberty