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In plain words
Making is making what shines within shine outside, without its giving up that form. And so, whatever real thing is called “within” with respect to someone becomes the outward effect of that very one, that is, it is fit to be brought out, being no more than a turning about of its inner form. And things shine within with respect to the whose form is , and with respect to him alone they shine outside; so it is fitting that their being made to shine as brought outside comes from him alone.
And so the alone is the cause, not the insentient. “Ca” is in the sense of “for”. Since that stands as the ground of the effect’s two shinings, within and without, for without him the two that depend on him could not hold, therefore it is to the one alone, and never in any way to the insentient, that action belongs, “declared”, that is, established in its form: being the maker.
He makes this same point firm:
For this very reason, in the sprout too, the Supreme Lord is held to be the cause; and being the cause does not hold for anything other than Him, the seed and the rest.
Since in this way the sentient alone is the maker, for this very reason the and others have held that in the sprout and the like the cause is the Supreme Lord alone, who has understanding. But surely they accepted His being the instrumental cause, working through atoms and the like, which are reached by the sequence of motion, disjunction and so on; while through the chain by which a thing’s own parts, its inherent cause, set it going, they spoke of being the cause as belonging also to what is other than the Lord: seed, earth, water and the like. True, it was spoken of; but it does not hold, since by the reasoning given the insentient cannot be a cause. And so it is the Lord alone who shines in the form of the sprout, together with the of seed, earth and water. This much is the truth here.
Breaking the error of the other side, who asks, “But what is hindered if one does not suppose a cause that has understanding, apart from the seed and the rest that are seen?”, he says:
Consider: that potter would bring forth the pot by a lordly ordering alone, through the sequence of preparing this and that, the clay and the rest.