Note 161 — Chapter XI · JUDAEA AND THE JEWS.

Pseudo-Longinus, περὶ ὕψους, 9: “Far better than the war of the gods in Homer is the description of the gods in their perfection and genuine greatness and purity, like that of Poseidon (Ilias, xiii. 18 ff.). Just so writes the legislator of the Jews, no mean man (οὐχ ὁ τυχὼν ἀνήρ), after he has worthily apprehended and brought to expression the Divine power, at the very beginning of the Laws (Genesis, i. 3): ‘God said’—what? ‘Let there be light, and there was light; let the earth be, and the earth was.’”