Note 11 — Chapter XI · THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CREATION IN JUDAISM.
George Eliot translation
If, in the course of time, the idea of Jehovah expanded itself in individual minds, and his love was extended, as by the writer of the Book of Jonah, to man in general, this does not belong to the essential character of the Israelitish religion. The God of the fathers, to whom the most precious recollections are attached, the ancient historical God, remains always the foundation of a religion.11