Divine will

For example, it may be that even now the gods have assigned to me the task of speech while to you they allot the task of action, considering that you will be the best master in that province, while in the field of speech I might prove least irksome to my hearers.

but if it is up to the standard of my former publications, I would have you believe that it was not my old age that conceived it but the divine will that prompted it, not out of solicitude for me, but because of its concern for Hellas, and because of its desire to deliver her out of her present distress and to crown you with a glory far greater than you now possess.

It were therefore shameful, now that fortune nobly leads the way, to lag behind and refuse to follow whither she desires to lead you forward.

rather His self-disclosure out of His knowledge is agreeable to His own essence, and nothing occurs in His dominion but what He wills.

(and secondly) the absence of His will in creating it follows, for want of knowledge, since the will is among the consequents of knowledge and does not exist where knowledge does not;

It is as though, in what has been cast to you, you had apprehended that the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*) is its willer in thou willest by it, (1) yet He does not yearn and deliberate and then bring into existence according to what His thought leads Him to;

And then after a short time, we saw him adore together the earth and Olympus of the gods in the same prayer.

The divinity heard me say these things, as did the all-seeing Oath of Zeus.

Best of daughters, you both must bear the will of the gods.