Chapter II.—Testimonies to the unity of God.

First, then, Æschylus, in expounding the arrangement of his work, expressed himself also as follows respecting the only God:—

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But he was not the only man initiated in the knowledge of God; for Sophocles also thus describes the nature of the only Creator of all things, the One God:—

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And Philemon also, who published many explanations of ancient customs, shares in the knowledge of the truth; and thus he writes:—

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Even Orpheus, too, who introduces three hundred and sixty gods, will bear testimony in my favour from the tract called Diathecæ, in which he appears to repent of his error by writing the following:—

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He speaks indeed as if he had been an eyewitness of God’s greatness. And Pythagoras agrees with him when he writes:—

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