I. THE CREATOR. UTHOR of Being, Source of Light, Truth, or Good, or One, or All, EI*, or IA: Thee we hail, *The Grecian name EI, "Thou art," infcribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, is fuppofed to be taken from the Saite infcription "I am," and correfponds with Exodus iii. 14, meaning "Unchangeable." † IA was the "Barbaric name for Jehovah, or Jao, as the Greeks wrote it, intimating His Unity, whence the Phonician IETO, and from thence the Grecian ZETE. B Grecian or Barbaric name, Thy ftedfaft Being still the fame. And yet, a greater Hero far, And teach to live, and teach to pray. Come, UNKNOWN INSTRUCTOR, COME! Our leaping hearts fhall make Thee room; Thou, with Jove our vows fhalt share, Of JOVE and THEE we are the care. O FATHER, KING, whofe Heavenly Face Shines ferene on all Thy race, We Thy magnificence adore, Nor vainly for Thy help we call, Nor can we want, for THOU ART ALL! EUPOLIS, 5th Cent. B.C. |