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] And Orpheus:

And so forth.

Pindar, the lyric poet, as if in Bacchic frenzy, plainly says:

And again:

And when he says,

he drew the thought from the following: "Who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who was His counsellor?" Hesiod, too, agrees with what is said above, in what he writes:

Similarly, then, Solon the Athenian, in the Elegies, following Hesiod, writes:

Again Moses, having prophesied that the woman would bring forth in trouble and pain, on account of transgression, a poet not undistinguished writes:

Further, when Homer says,

he intimates that God is just.

And Menander, the comic poet, in exhibiting God, says: