For, from the fact of his having subjoined their destruction, he shows them to be no gods at all. Elias, too, when all Israel was assembled at Mount Carmel, wishing to turn them from idolatry, says to them, “How long halt ye between two opinions?3346
3346 Literally, “In both houghs,” in ambabus suffraginibus.
3347 The old Latin translation has, “Si unus est Dominus Deus”—If the LordGod is one; which is supposed by the critics to have occurred through carelessness of the translator.