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On the Theophania

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843

For, if they were no Gods, and in their nature by no means superior to ourselves, but, …

For, if they were no Gods, and in their nature by no means superior to ourselves, but, were otherwise men who had realized sincerity through their excellency and wisdom; Would they not have interposed themselves, and have relieved their Friends from contention?—either persuading them by reason, or, saving them by power, and severing them to a distance from each other? counselling them also in the things which were becoming?—when acting (I say only) as good men; and, as being their Friends, relieving them from their (mutual) enmity, and bringing them together for peace?

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