"[...] the creation of the cosmos signifies the foundation of the church[...]"

”Now all these statements, with their description of the Bridgegroom's beauty, point not to the invisible and incomprehensible realities of the Godhead but to the things that were revealed in the economy, when Deity, having put on human nature, was revealed on the earth and held converse with human beings. By their means, as the apostle says, ”the invisible things of him … have been clearly apprehended in his works” (Rom 1:20) as revealed through the foundation of the cosmos that is the church. For the creation of the cosmos signifies the foundation of the church[...]” (In Cant. 384-385, Norris p. 405)
”ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα, δι’ ὧν ἡ τοῦ κάλλους γέγονεν ὑπογραφή, οὐ τῶν ἀοράτων τε καὶ ἀκαταλήπτων τῆς θεότητός ἐστιν ἐνδεικτικὰ ἀλλὰ τῶν κατ’ οἰκονομίαν φανερωθέντων, ὅτε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὤφθη καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνανεστράφη τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην ἐνδυσάμενος φύσιν, δι’ ὧν κατὰ τὸν ἀποστολικὸν λόγον καὶ τὰ ἀόρατα αὐτοῦ τοῖς ποιήμασι νοούμενα καθορᾶται διὰ τῆς τοῦ ἐκκλησιαστικοῦ κόσμου κατασκευῆς φανερούμενα. κόσμου γὰρ κτίσις ἐστὶν ἡ τῆς ἐκκλησίας κατασκευή” (In Cant. 384-385, Norris p. 405)