The sentiment of reverence, of worship, was lifting them to its true object.

All they needed was to have their understanding enlightened.

Truth he placed in the heart rather than the understanding, but he also connected Christianity with Polytheism where the two religions touched, that is, on their pantheistic side.

While placing God _above_ the world as its ruler, "seeing he is Lord of heaven and earth," he placed him _in_ the world as an immanent presence,--"in him we live, and move, and have our being." And afterward, in writing to the Romans, he takes the same ground.

He teaches that the Gentiles had a knowledge of the eternal attributes of God (Rom.i.