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On the Confusion of Languages

Philo of Alexandria · Parte 173

[173] Some persons therefore, admiring exceedingly the nature of both these worlds, have not only deified them in their wholes, but have also deified the most beautiful parts of them, such as the sun and the moon, and the entire heaven, which, having no reverence for anything, they have called gods. But Moses, perceiving their design, says, "O Lord, Lord, King of the gods," [116] in order to show the difference between the ruler and those subject to him,