expression, “that God may save us,” revealed the consciousness in the minds of heathens who had applied their mind to the Ruler of all, but had not yet believed. And again the same: “And he said to them, I am the servant of the Lord; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven.” And again the same: “And he said, Let us by no means perish for the life of this man.” And Malachi the prophet plainly exhibits God saying, “I will not accept sacrifice at your hands. For from the rising of the sun to its going down, my name is glorified among the Gentiles; and in every place sacrifice is offered to me.”[902] And again: “Because I am a great King, saith the Lord omnipotent; and my name is manifest among the nations.” What name? The Son declaring the Father among the Greeks who have believed. Plato in what follows gives an exhibition of free-will: “Virtue owns not a master; and in proportion as each one honours or dishonours it, in that proportion he will be a partaker of it. The blame lies in the exercise of free choice.” But God is blameless. For He is never the author of evil. “O warlike Trojans,” says the lyric poet,[903] “High ruling Zeus, who beholds all things, Is not the cause of great woes to mortals; But it is in the power of all men to find Justice, holy, pure, Companion of order, And of wise Themis The sons of the blessed are ye In finding her as your associate.” And Pindar expressly introduces also Zeus Soter, the consort of Themis, proclaiming him King, Saviour, Just, in the following lines: “First, prudent Themis, of celestial birth, On golden steeds, by Ocean’s rock, The Fates brought to the stair sublime, The shining entrance of Olympus, Of Saviour Zeus for aye[904] to be the spouse, And she, the Hours, gold-diademed, fair-fruited, good, brought forth.”[905] He, then, who is not obedient to the truth, and is puffed up with human teaching, is wretched and miserable, according to Euripides: “Who these things seeing, yet apprehends not God, But mouthing lofty themes, casts far Perverse deceits; stubborn in which, the tongue Its shafts discharges, about things unseen, Devoid of sense.” Let him who wishes, then, approaching to the true instruction, learn from Parmenides the Eleatic, who promises: “Ethereal nature, then, and all the signs In Ether thou shalt know, and the effects, All viewless, of the sacred Sun’s clear torch, And whence produced. The round-eyed Moon’s Revolving influences and nature thou Shalt learn; and the ensphering heaven shalt know; Whence sprung; and how Necessity took it And chained so as to keep the starry bounds.”