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394 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ANDand holds together the whole universe, in whomare all beautiful and good things, and who providesthem for the perpetual use of men free fromwaste, disease, and old age, so that they help usunfailingly, quicker than thought, is discerned inthe greatness of his operations, but while he administersthese to us, is himself invisible. Andtake thought that the sun, who seems to be manifestto all, allows not men to examine him closebut should "I anyone attempt .. . to . look 1 * at * him -*" 1lame-lessly, takes away his sight. And the ministersof the gods too you will find evading our senses;the lightning shoots from on high, and is masterwherever it alights, but is seen neither in its approach,nor in its stroke, nor in its departure. Thewinds themselves are invisible, but their works aremanifest, and we feel them as they come. Nayand man's soul too, or if there be anything else inman participating the divine, manifestly rules inus as a king, but is not seen. Bearing in thoughtthese things we must not despise the invisible, butlearning their power by their results, honour thatwhich is divine.36 Indeed, Socrates, says Euthy-demus, for my part I am quite resolved not theleast to neglect what is divine; but my trouble is,rwv bparat, raSe Se ollcojfOft&v a6paros TJ/J.'IV ecrrt. Compare thes passage of S. Paul, Rom. i. 19, 20. 5i6ri rb yvcaarbv rov 0eoudvep6v fanv ¬V avrois' 6 yap ®fbs avrois fipavepwcre' ra yap a6para avrovcbrb Krlffecas K6ffp.ov rots Tror^uacrt voovfj.ev'a KaQoparai, ^re a/'5tos avrov SviajuisdeioTrjs els rb tivai avrovs avaTroXoyrjrovs. Socrates draws precisely thesill36