Miscellanies 6.16.141

Here, according to the numbers themselves, each unit keeps its order up to seven and eight; but according to the count of the letters, zeta becomes the sixth and eta the seventh. And since the episemon has somehow slipped into the writing, if we follow it this way, the seven becomes sixth and the eight seventh. That is why man is said to have been made on the sixth day, the man who became faithful to the episemon, so as at once to receive the rest of the Lord's inheritance. Something of this kind the sixth hour of the saving dispensation also shows, the hour at which man was perfected. Moreover, of eight terms the intervals between them are seven, and of seven the intervals appear to be six. For that is another account, when the seven glorifies the eight and “the heavens declare to the heavens the glory of God.” The sensible types of these are our vowels. So too the Lord himself is called Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, “through whom all things came to be, and without him not one thing came to be.” God, then, has not ceased making, as some understand the rest of God. For since he is good, if he were ever to cease doing good, he would also cease to be God, which it is not lawful even to say.