Book V - Snyder Bible

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there are many elohim. One of these was chosen by lot, that he
might be the god of the Jews. But it is not of him that I speak,
but of that Elohim who is also his Elohim, whom even the Jews
themselves did not know. For he is not their Elohim, but the
Cha
imon:
for, behold, we have neither shut our ears, nor fled; but
we answer with words of truth to those things which you have
spoken falsely, asserting this first, that there is one Elohim,
even the Yahweh of the Jews, who is the only Elohim, the Creator
of heaven and earth, who is also the Elohim of all those
whom you call elohim. If, then, I shall show you that none is
superior to Him, but that He Himself is above all, you will con-
ndeed,
though I should be unwilling to confess it, would not the
hearers who stand by charge me with unwillingness to profess
Chapter XLI: The Answer, Continued
that even if there are many elohim, as you say, they are subject
to the Yahweh of the Jews, to whom no one is equal, than
whom no one can be greater; for it is written that the prophet
Moshe thus spo
Elohim of elohim, and the Master of masters, the great Yah-
ohim,
yet He who is the Yahweh of the Jews is alone called the Elohim
of elohim. For not every one that is called Elohim is necessarily
Elohim. Indeed, even Moshe is called an elohim to
Pharaoh, and it is certain that he was a man; and judges were
called elohim, and it is evident that they were mortal. The
idols also of the Gentiles are called elohim, and we all know
that they are not; but this has been inflicted as a punishment
on the wicked, that because they would not acknowledge the
true Elohim, they should regard as Elohim whatever form or