How does the Church of Alexandria understand divine providence?

Many ancient philosophers such as Philo, Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and others contemplated the universe with its mighty laws, potential, beauty, etc. They believed in God’s providence for the universe as a fact about reality, but they mostly considered His role to be limited to creating the universe with its natural laws, but then abandoning the universe after He had created it, leaving its laws to govern it.

However, the Alexandrian Fathers — who considered philosophy to be a divine gift that reveals part of the truth but not the whole — believed in divine providence based upon scripture rather than philosophy. I mean that providence encompasses all creation in general, and humans in particular, and it transcends and surpasses time and place. It cared about humanity even before we were created, that is, when we were still in the mind of God. This divine providence is still concerned with human affairs on earth and will continue its work even in the age to come. It embraces the faithful, and even irrational creatures. This is evident in God’s tender mercies, His compassion upon us, and His discipline of us, through all the events of our lives, both happy and sad. Divine providence is tied to divine grace,

514 St. Irenaeus of Lyon, Againt Heresies 3:25:1 (ANF 1:459).

515 St. John Chrysostom, On Psalms 46.1 (PG 28:3).

which was manifest in the incarnation of the Word of God, His crucifixion, and His resurrection, that we might become children of God, and be worthy of the eternal inheritance.