Pluto and others

Usage examples of gods.

He believed true wisdom to be an attainable idea, and that the moral convictions of the mind, those eternal instincts of temperance, conscientiousness, and justice, implanted in it by the gods, could not deceive, if rightly interpreted.

God Supreme, from whom all other gods emanate or are by Him created, 597-l.

The Eight Great Gods, or primary class, were probably manifestations of the emanated God in the several parts and powers of the Universe, each potentially comprising the whole Godhead.

His works to Secondary Gods, personified, and isolated from Him in fabulous independence.

At Samothrace, in the Mysteries of the Cabiri or great Gods, a representation was given of the death of one of them.

But not several, for just as one Divine Nature in several Persons does not make several gods, so one human nature in several persons does not make several men.

Wherefore in the passage quoted we are to understand the prohibition to adore those images which the Gentiles made for the purpose of venerating their own gods, i.

Christianity, it is said, begins from the burning of the false gods by the people themselves.

When office and wealth become the gods of a people, and the most unworthy and unfit most aspire to the former, and fraud becomes the highway to the latter, the land will reek with falsehood and sweat lies and chicane.

Joshua they became devout worshippers of the false gods of all the surrounding nations.

Philo, and the Alohayim, Forces or Superior Gods of the ancient legend with which Genesis begins,--to these and other intermediaries the creation was owing.

Thus men have given to the Gods human forms, and have even represented them under the figure of other beings, in the train of which fictions followed many more of the same sort.

Existence in its several gradations has emanated--the world of Gods, as nearest akin to Himself, being first, and at the head of all.

In these Gods, that perfection, which in the Supreme Essence was inclosed and unevolved, is expanded and becomes knowable.

To them the Gods and the Idols of the Gods were symbols, and symbols of great and mysterious truths.