“Never by day From toil and woe shall they have rest, nor yet By night from groans. Sad cares the gods to men Shall give.” Further, when Homer says, “The Sire himself the golden balance held,”[889] he intimates that God is just. And Menander, the comic poet, in exhibiting God, says: “To each man, on his birth, there is assigned A tutelary Demon, as his life’s good guide. For that the Demon evil is, and harms A good life, is not to be thought.” Then he adds: “Ἅπαντα δ’ ἀγαθὸν εἶναι τὸν Θεόν,”-- meaning either “that every one good is God,” or, what is preferable, “that God in all things is good.” Again, Æschylus the tragedian, setting forth the power of God, does not shrink from calling Him the Highest in these words: “Place God apart from mortals; and think not That He is, like thyself, corporeal. Thou know’st Him not. Now He appears as fire, Dread force; as water now; and now as gloom; And in the beasts is dimly shadowed forth, In wind, and cloud, in lightning, thunder, rain; And minister to Him the seas and rocks, Each fountain and the water’s floods and streams. The mountains tremble, and the earth, the vast Abyss of sea, and towering height of hills, When on them looks the Sovereign’s awful eye: Almighty is the glory of the Most High God.”[890] Does he not seem to you to paraphrase that text, “At the presence of the Lord the earth trembles?”[891] In addition to these, the most prophetic Apollo is compelled--thus testifying to the glory of God--to say of Athene, when the Medes made war against Greece, that she besought and supplicated Zeus for Attica. The oracle is as follows: “Pallas cannot Olympian Zeus propitiate, Although with many words and sage advice she prays; But he will give to the devouring fire many temples of the immortals, Who now stand shaking with terror, and bathed in sweat;”[892] and so forth. Thearidas, in his book _On Nature_, writes: “There was then one really true beginning [first principle] of all that exists--one. For that Being in the beginning is one and alone.” “Nor is there any other except the Great King,” says Orpheus. In accordance with whom, the comic poet Diphilus says very sententiously,[893] the “Father of all, To Him alone incessant reverence pay, The inventor and the author of such blessings.”