Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.Lactantius
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
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But those who are ignorant of the truth do not think that these prophets are to be believed for they say that those voices are not divine, but human.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.
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