One thing I happened to be puzzling over was how the impression first became current that this god of the Jews was a being of goodness.

Such an impression seems to have been tacitly accepted for some centuries after the iniquities so typical of him had been discountenanced by society--long after human sacrifice was abhorred, and even after the sacrificing of animals was held to be degrading.

It's a point that escapes me, owing to my addled brain; doubtless you can set me right.

At present I can't conceive how the notion could ever have occurred to any one.

I now remember this book well enough to know that not only is little good ever recorded of him, but he is so continually barbarous, and so atrociously cruel in his barbarities.