These are plainly derived from the following: "The Lord will save the inhabited cities, and grasp the whole land in His hand like a nest;" [3162] "It is the Lord that made the earth by His power," as saith Jeremiah, "and set up the earth by His wisdom." [3163] Further, in addition to these, Phocylides, who calls the angels demons, explains in the following words that some of them are good, and others bad (for we also have learned that some are apostate):--
"Demons there are--some here, some there--set over men;
Some, on man's entrance [into life], to ward off ill."
Rightly, then, also Philemon, the comic poet demolishes idolatry in these words:--
"Fortune is no divinity to us:
There's no such god. But what befalls by chance
And of itself to each, is Fortune called."
And Sophocles the tragedian says:--
"Not even the gods have all things as they choose,
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