[48] De Provid. i.
[49] Cf. Lactantius vi. 17.
[50] Epit. cxx. 13.
[51] Lucanus ii. 378.
[52] Ibidem.
In iambics that caressed the ear like flutes, poets had told of Jupiter clothed in purple and glory. They had told of his celestial amours, of his human and of his inhuman vices. Seneca believed in Jupiter. But not in the Jove of the poets. That god dwelled in ivory and anapests. Seneca's deity, nowhere visible, was everywhere present.[53] Creator of heaven and earth,[54] without whom there is nothing,[55] from whom nothing is hidden,[56] and to whom all belongs,[57] our Father,[58] whose will shall be done.[59]
[53] Nemo novit Deum. Epit. xxxi. Ubique Deus. Epit. xli.
[54] Mundum hujus operis dominum et artificem. Quæst. nat. i.
[55] Sine quo nihil est. Quæst. nat. vii. 31.
[56] Nil Deo Clausam. Ep. lxxxx.