Chapter
XXII.—“The Gods that Have Not Made the
Heavens.”
“For are not they graven with iron? And has
not the graying iron been softened by fire? And is not the fire
itself extinguished with water? And has not the water its motion
from the spirit? And has not the spirit the beginning of its
course from the God who hath made all things? For thus said the
prophet Moses: ‘In the beginning God made the heaven and
the earth. And the earth was unsightly, and unadorned; and
darkness was over the deep: and the Spirit of God was borne above
the waters.’ Which Spirit, at the bidding of God, as it
were His hand, makes all things, dividing light from darkness, and
after the invisible heaven spreading out the visible, that the places
above might be inhabited by the angels of light, and those below by
man, and all the creatures that were made for his use.