[170] In the first place, then, we must say this, that there is no existing being equal in honour to God, but there is one only [110] [111] [112] [113] [114] ruler and governor and king, to whom alone it is granted to govern and to arrange the universe. For the verse— / A multitude of kings is never good, / Let there one sovereign, one sole monarch be, [115] is not more justly said with respect to cities and men than with respect to the world and to God; for it is clear from the necessity of things that there must be one creator, and one father, and one master of the one universe.