“I am God and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things which are not yet done.”[113-1]
In a similar strain the ancient Aryan sang:—
“This do I ask thee, tell me, O Ahura!
Who is he, working good, made the light and also darkness?
Who is he, working good, made the sleep as well as waking?
Who the night, as well as noon and the morning?”
And the reply came:
“Know also this, O pure Zarathustra: through my wisdom, through which was the beginning of the world, so also its end shall be.”[113-2]
Or as the Arabian apostle wrote, inspired by the same idea:—
“Praise the name of thy Lord, the Most High,
Who hath created and balanced all things,
Who hath fixed their destinies and guideth them.”
“The Revelation of this book is from the Mighty, the Wise. We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is between them otherwise than with a purpose and for a settled term.”[113-3]
[87-1] The Emotions and Will, p. 594. So Professor Tyndall speaks of confining the religious sentiment to “the region of emotion, which is its proper sphere.”
[87-2] H. L. Mansel, The Limits of Religious Thought, p. 115. (Boston, 1859.)