Note 3 — Chapter XXVII · CONCLUDING APPLICATION.
George Eliot translation
“Because God does good through government, great men and creatures in general, people rush into error, lean on creatures and not on the Creator;—they do not look from the creature to the Creator. Hence it came that the heathens made gods of kings.... For they cannot and will not perceive that the work or the benefit comes from God, and not merely from the creature, though the latter is a means, through which God works, helps us, and gives to us.”—Luther (T. iv. p. 237). ↑