Note 90 — Chapter VIII · DATE AND PLACE OF COMPOSITION.

I cannot go quite so far as Lagarde, who argues from the use of ‘Eloah’ (instead of ‘Elohim’ and ‘Jehovah’) that the doubters have cast off belief in all the supposed various manifestations of divinity in the world, and merely retain a comfortless belief in τὸ θεῖον. ‘Numen quoddam esse non negant, sed’ &c. Psalterium Hieronymi, pp. 155-6 (‘Corollarium’).