Note 457 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES

So Euripides makes Iphigenia (I. in Taur. l. 400) say, “I think not that any one of the gods is bad.” Cf. J. A. Hild, Ét. sur les Démons, pp. 53, 136. In sharp contrast to the Jewish idea exemplified in Deuteronomy of a god whose “name is Jealous” is Plato’s description of the Creator in the Timæus (40 C.), “He is not jealous, for he is good, and in him that is good no jealousy exists.”