De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini

as it is he who demonstrates clearly to others all the [*](Genesis iv. 3. ) [*](Exodus xiii. 11, )

clear indications of truth. And accordingly he is in need of no witness; for neither is there any other god of equal honour with him. I omit to mention that he who bears witness, inasmuch as he bears witness, is better than he to whom he bears witness; for the one stands in need of something, and the other serves him: and he who serves is more worthy of credit than he who requires to be served. But it is impious to conceive that any thing can be better than the Cause of all things, since there is nothing equal to him, nothing that is even a little inferior to him; [*](The similarity to Horace is here again very remarkable. Horace, speaking of the Parent and Governor of the universe, says— Undo nil majus generatur ipso, Nec viget quicquam simile, aut secundum.—Od. I. xii. 17. ) but every thing which exists in the world is found to be in its whole genus inferior to God.