Note 127-1 — Chapter IV · THE PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER.
Reading edition
Symbolik und Mythologie der Alten Völker. Bd. I., ss. 165, sqq. One of the most favorable examples (not mentioned by Creuzer) is the formula with which Apollonius of Tyana closed every prayer and gave as the summary of all: “Give me, ye Gods, what I deserve”—Δοιητε μοι τα οφειλομενα. The Christian’s comment on this would be in the words of Hamlet’s reply to Polonius: “God’s bodkin, man! use every man after his desert and who should ’scape whipping?”