And Orpheus:
"One Might, the great, the flaming heaven, was
One Deity. All things one Being were; in whom
All these revolve fire, water, and the earth."
And so forth.
Pindar, the lyric poet, as if in Bacchic frenzy, plainly says:
"What is God? The All."
And again:
"God, who makes all mortals."
And when he says,
"How little, being a man, dost thou expect
Wisdom for man? 'Tis hard for mortal mind
The counsels of the gods to scan; and thou
Wast of a mortal mother born,"
he drew the thought from the following: "Who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who was His counsellor?"[1] Hesiod, too, agrees with what is said above, in what he writes:
"No prophet, sprung of men that dwell on earth,
Can know the mind of Ægis-bearing Zeus."
Similarly, then, Solon the Athenian, in the Elegies, following Hesiod, writes:
"The Immortal's mind to men is quite unknown."
Again Moses, having prophesied that the woman would bring forth in trouble and pain, on account of transgression, a poet not undistinguished writes:
"Never by day
From toil and woe shall they have rest, nor yet
By night from groans. Sad cares the gods to men
Shall give."
Further, when Homer says,
"The Sire himself the golden balance held,"[2]
he intimates that God is just.
And Menander, the comic poet, in exhibiting God, says:
"To each man, on his birth, there is assigned
A tutelary Demon, as his life's good guide.
For that the Demon evil is, and harms
A good life, is not to be thought."
