{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081059.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081059.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081059.htm","text":"Chapter VII.\u2014Peter Appeals to the Old Testament to Prove the Unity of God.\nAnd Peter said: \u201cI shall reply briefly to what you have said. The law, which frequently speaks of gods, itself says to the Jewish multitude, 1269 \u2018Bep. 314 hold, the heaven of heavens is the Lord\u2019s thy God, with all that therein is;\u2019 implying that, even if there are gods, they are under Him, that is, under the God of the Jews. And again: 1270 \u2018The Lord thy God, He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath, and there is none other except Him.\u2019 And somewhere else the Scripture says to the Jewish multitude, 1271 \u2018The Lord your God is God of gods;\u2019 so that, even if there are gods, they are under the God of the Jews. And somewhere else the Scripture says in regard to Him, 1272 God, the great and true, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward, He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow.\u2019 The Scripture, in calling the God of the Jews great and true, and executing judgment, marked out the others as small, and not true. But also somewhere else the Scripture says, 1273 \u2018As I live, saith the Lord, there is no other God but me. I am the first, I am after this; except me there is no God.\u2019 And again: 1274 \u2018Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.\u2019 And again: 1275 \u2018Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one Lord.\u2019 And many passages besides seal with an oath that God is one, and except Him there is no God. Whence I wonder how, when so many passages testify that there is one God, you say that there are many.\u201d\nIsa. 49:18, Isa. 45:21, Isa. 44:6.\n314:1274 314:1275","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter VII","type":"page"}