Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies 4.20

We cannot know God by measuring his magnitude, because the Father cannot be measured; but his love draws us to him through his Word, and as we obey that Word we keep learning just how great God truly is. He himself, in his own person, establishes, chooses, and adorns all things in a way that relates to us, and we ourselves have been made from what he contains. This is what Scripture declares: "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life" (Genesis 2:7). Angels did not make us, nor did they shape us; angels could not fashion the image of God, nor could anyone else except the Word of the Lord, and certainly no power that stands far removed from the Father. God did not need such beings to carry out what he had predetermined, as if he lacked his own hands. The Word and Wisdom, the Son and the Spirit, are always present to him; through them and in them he freely and willingly made all things. He speaks to them, saying, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness" (Genesis 1:26), himself drawing the substance of creatures, the pattern of his works, and the form of the world's adornments from his own being.