Since, then, God is the great Supreme, our Christian verity has rightly declared, 47 As its first principle.
Therefore He will not otherwise exist than by the condition whereby He has His being that is, by His absolute uniqueness. by having no equal, and so not ceasing to be the great Supreme. That Being, then, which is the great Supreme, must needs be unique, 46 Unicus.
that there is no other great supreme because, if there were, He would have an equal and if He had an equal, He would be no longer the great Supreme, now that the condition and (so to say) our law, which permits nothing to be equal to the great Supreme, is subverted. the great Supreme, except the man who shall be able to pronounce the opposite opinion, that God is but some inferior being, in order that he may deny God by robbing Him of an attribute of God), what must be the condition of the great Supreme Himself? Surely it must be that nothing is equal to Him, i.e. Now, since all are agreed on this point (because nobody will deny that God is in some sense 45 Quid. 44 We subjoin the original of this difficult passage: Hunc enim statum æternitati censendum, quæ summum magnum deum efficiat, dum hoc est in deo ipsa, atque ita et cetera, ut sit deus summum magnum et forma et ratione et vi et potestate. in God and so on as to the other qualities: so that God is the great Supreme in form and in reason, and in might and in power. For such a condition as this must needs be ascribed to that eternity which makes God to be the great Supreme, because for such a purpose as this is this very attribute 43 Of eternity. So far as a human being can form a definition of God, I adduce one which the conscience of all men will also acknowledge,-that God is the great Supreme existing in eternity, unbegotten, unmade without beginning, without end. In order, however, that you may know that God is one, ask what God is, and you will find Him to be not otherwise than one. But the Christian verity has distinctly declared this principle, “God is not, if He is not one ” because we more properly believe that that has no existence which is not as it ought to be. or pictorial fancy, or by the third process, as we must now add, 42 Jam. the whole, contention lies in the point of number: whether two Gods may be admitted, by poetic licence (if they must be), 41 Si Forte. He is the Supreme Being, and There Cannot Be a Second Supreme. But here the sting lies in the fact that Claudius was lame in his right foot.Chapter III.-The Unity of God. 3The Latin means walking “with his steps not equal” as did little lulus when in escaping from Troy he followed his father (Virgil, Aeneid, II, 724).In support of its accomplishment one Livius Geminius swore that he saw her going up to heaven. 14) but Julia Drusilla, sister of Emperor Gaius Caligula ( a.d. 2Not Livia Drusilla, wife of Emperor Augustus (30 b.c.-a.d.54 Claudius died, and the Senate decided that for his merits he should be added to the gods with the title “ divus Claudius” as we might say “the (late lamented) deified Claudius.” He had reigned since a.d. He is custodian of the Appian Way by that route, you know, both Tiberius and Augustus went up to the Nill he, all that happens in heaven he needs must see. Who has ever made the historian produce witness to swear for him? But if an authority must be produced, ask of the man who saw Drusilla 2 translated to heaven: the same man will aver he saw Claudius on the road, dot and carry one. If I choose to answer, I will say whatever trips off my tongue. Who will compel me? I know the same day made me free, which was the last day for him who made the proverb true-One must be born either a Pharaoh or a fool. Ask if you like the source of my knowledge of these events which are so true to begin with, I am not bound to please you with my answer. It shall be done without malice or favour. I wish to place on record the proceedings in heaven October 13 last, 1 of the new year which begins this auspicious age. Apocolocyntosis Seneca The Pumpkinification Of Claudius
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