Reflection of St. Ambrose in Evangelium Vitae

In reading through JP2's Evangelium Vitae for a course in bioethics I'm taking, I came across this amazing quotation from St. Ambrose:

[John Paul introduces the quote:] The glory of God shines on the face of man. In man the Creator finds his rest, as Saint Ambrose comments with a sense of awe:

"The sixth day is finished and the creation of the world ends with the formation of that masterpiece which is man, who exercises dominion over all living creatures and is as it were the crown of the universe and the supreme beauty of every created being.

Truly we should maintain a reverential silence, since the Lord rested from every work he had undertaken in the world.

He rested then in the depths of man, he rested in man's mind and in his thought; after all, he had created man endowed with reason, capable of imitating him, of emulating his virtue, of hungering for heavenly graces.

In these his gifts God reposes, who has said: 'Upon whom shall I rest, if not upon the one who is humble, contrite in spirit and trembles at my word?' (Is 66:1-2). I thank the Lord our God who has created so wonderful a work in which to take his rest."

To cap this post off, here is a portrait of St. Ambrose done in 1465 or so by the Italian master Giovanni Di Paulo (now there's a good name...). It currently resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (here are more artistic depictions of St. Ambrose):