Only St. Paul had told them: Your forefathers were right in fancying
that law and right came from the great God of gods: but they knew
hardly anything, or rather, in time they forgot almost everything,
about that Heavenly Father. In their ignorance they mixed up the
belief in the one great almighty and good God, which dwells in the
hearts of all men, with filthy fables and superstitions till they
came to fancy that there were many gods and not one, and that these
many gods were sinful, foul, proud, and cruel, as fallen men. But
you have been brought back to the knowledge of the one true, and
righteous, and loving God, which your forefathers lost. He has
revealed and shown Himself, and what He is like, in His Son Jesus
Christ. He is love, and wisdom, and justice, and order itself; and,
therefore, you must be sure, even more sure than your old heathen
forefathers, that He cares for a nation being at peace and unity
within itself, governed by wise laws, doing justice between man and
man, and keeping order throughout all its business, that every man
may do his work and enjoy his wages without hindrance, or confusion,
or fear, or robbery and oppression from those who are stronger than
he.
And so St. Paul says to them: "You must believe that power and law
come from God, far more firmly and clearly than ever your heathen
forefathers did.
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