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Gods to men; but, according to the decision of truth, renders the will of man adapted to the participation of the Gods, elevates it to them, and coharmonizes the former with the latter, through the most appropriate persuasion. On this account also, such names of the Gods as are adapted to sacred concerns, and other divine symbols, are able, as they are of an anagogic or elevating nature, to connect invocations with the Gods themselves.




CHAP. XIII.

Moreover, "the pacifications of anger" will become manifest, if we understand what the anger of the Gods is.[1] This, therefore, is not, as it appears to be to some, a certain ancient and inveterate rage, but an abandonment of the beneficent care of the Gods, from which we turn ourselves away, withdrawing, as it were,

  1. In the original, Και δη, και "αι της μηνιδος εξιλασεις" εσονται σαφεις, εαν την μηνιν των δεων καταμαθωμεν, which Gale most erroneously translates as follows: "Sed et ratio possit reddi supplicationum, quibus divinam iram procuramus, si recte intelligamus, qualis sit deorum ira."