THE WORKS OF RALPH CUDWORTH, D.D. CONTAINING THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE, SERMONS, &c. A NEW EDITION, WITH REFERENCES TO THE SEVERAL QUOTATIONS IN THE THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE. CHAP. IV. CONTINUED. As for the vulgar of the Greekish Pagans, whether they apprehended God to be νοῦν ἐξηρημένον τοῦ κόσμου, a mind or intellect separate from the world, or else to be a soul of the world only; -it cannot be doubted, but that by the word Zeus they commonly understood the supreme Deity in one or other of those senses, the father and king of gods; he being frequently thus styled in their solemn nuncupations of vows, Zev Táre, ZEU άva, O Jupiter father, and O Jupiter king. As he was invoked also Zɛʊ Bariλɛʊ in that excellent prayer of an ancient poet, not without cause commended in Plato's Alcibiades Ζεῦ Βασιλεῦ, τὰ μὲν ἐσθλὰ καὶ εὐχομένοις καὶ ἀνεύκτοις O Jupiter king, give us good things, whether we a In Alcibiad. secundo, sive de Precatione, p. 40. |