Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 246
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unbelieving than the unbelievers. For, seeing that all the heathen believe in their idols, and are persuaded that to them all things are possi- ble (as even their poet Homer says,' "The gods can do all things, and that easily ; " and he added the word " easily " that he might bring out the greatness of the power of the gods), many do seem to be more unbelieving than they. For if the heathen believe in their gods, which are idols (" which have ears, and they hear not ; they have eyes, and they see not"^), that they can do all things, though they be but devils, as saith the Scripture…
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