Note 356 — Chapter III · (continued 3)

This appears at first sight to be somewhat contrary to the statement made above (p. 309) that "We cannot affirm pathos of the gods." But if my translation in the above passage is the right one Die Götter werden zum menschlichen Pathos, I think we must understand Die Götter here in a more universal sense of the Divine than in the former passage, and find the emphasis here is laid upon the word menschlichen. It is, in fact, but another way of stating the incarnation of the Divine in humanity.