So he is the first god we pray to, before the other gods".
Mr. Schwartz also wrote "Media: The Second God," published by Random House in 1981.
I'm the first, God knows, to grant that you, with your beauty, you had opportunities or invitations.
That is why, though not always a realist, he is the first god of realism after Caravaggio.
Could, in other words, the first god have an essential property which the second god lacks, or vice versa?
Hence the first God remains absolutely simple, pure goodness, is at rest and inert, while the second god is in motion (fr.
And, of course, similar conclusions are true of the second god.
For if the first god is a causally necessary condition of the existence of every other concrete object, then the second god is not a causally sufficient condition (in the strong sense) of the existence of any contingent being.
The first god is equated with the good, is simple, at rest and associates only with itself.
Numenius actually describes the First God as being (ho ôn), a phrase that alludes to Exodus 3.14 (fr. 13.4).
