Verse 38
38. The God of forces Rather, the God of fortresses. Perhaps this means that he worshiped from policy, and only gave gifts and honors to such deities as had strong fortresses to defend them, the strongholds being his gods; but more likely there was some special deity of war to whom Antiochus gave real honor. Whether this was Jupiter Capitolinus (whose temple was itself a fort, and of whose warlike character everyone knows, to which god also he built a costly sanctuary at Antioch), or whether it was some little-known foreign fetich or deity cannot now be told. The latter is very possible, as superstition generally accompanies irreligiousness.
Whom his fathers knew not This shows that it was not Zeus Polieus, or any other deity whom the Seleucidae worshiped.
Be the first to react on this!
