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Rh But in an inward purity of heart; Hearing the thunder then, thou shalt not fear, Nor shalt thou flee, O master, at its voice, For thou art conscious of no evil deed, And God, close by you, sees whate'er you do."

Again, Plato, in Timæus, says: "But if any one on consideration should actually institute a rigid inquiry, he would be ignorant of the distinction between the human and the divine nature; because God mingles many things up into one, [and again is able to dissolve one into many things,] seeing that He is endued with knowledge and power; but no man either is, or ever shall be, able to perform any of these."

But concerning those who think that they shall share the holy and perfect name, which some have received by a vain tradition as if they were gods, Menander in the Auriga says:

The same Menander, in the Sacerdos, says:

There is no God, O woman, that can save One man by another; if indeed a man, With sound of tinkling cymbals, charm a god Where'er he listeth, then assuredly He who doth so is much the greater god. But these, O Rhode, are but the cunning schemes Which daring men of intrigue, unabashed,