Antigone turns on the conflict between divine law and human ordinance; and, as we know, these rival principles often come into sharp conflict: August. Conff. iii. 8 (an important chapter); Thomas Aquinas, Summa c. Gentiles, chaps. cxvi, cxxvii,, who points out, however, that the terminus ad quem of all divine law is the love of God. Cf. the noble words of Dante (Paradiso):
E la sua voluntate è nostra pace.
ADDED NOTE.
The passage in Eusebius runs thus:
Τἀγαθὸν ἐρωτᾷς μ᾽ οἷον ἐστ᾽; ἄκουε δή.
Τεταγμένον, δίκαιον, ὅσιον, εὐσεβές,
κρατοῦν ἑαντοῦ, χρήσιμον, καλόν, δέον,
αὐστηρόν, αὐθέκαστον, ἀεισύμφεραν,
ἄφοβον, ἄλυπον, λυσιτελές, ἀνώδυνον,
ὠφέλιμον, εὐάρεστον, ἀσφαλές, φίλον,
ἔντιμον, ὁμολογούμενον, . . .
εὐκλεές, ἄτυφον, ἐπιμελές, πρᾷον, σφοδρόν,
χρονιζόμενον, ἄμεμπτον, ἀεὶ διαμένον.
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