Chapter XIX.—God’s Peculiar Attribute.
“He who would worship God ought before all things
to know what alone is peculiar to the nature of God, which cannot
pertain to another, that, looking at His peculiarity, and not finding
it in any other, he may not be seduced into ascribing godhead to
another. But this is peculiar to God, that He alone is, as the
Maker of all, so also the best of all. That which makes is indeed
superior in power to that which is made; that which is boundless is
superior in magnitude to that which is bounded: in respect of
beauty, that which is comeliest; in respect of happiness, that which is
most blessed; in respect of understanding, that which is most
perfect. And in like manner, in other respects, He has
incomparably the pre-eminence. Since then, as I said, this very
thing, viz., to be the best of all, is peculiar to God, and the
all-comprehending world was made by Him, none of the things made by Him
can come into equal comparison with Him.