because of the sea and perhaps because of the appreciation of limits. God revealed these three attributes of his nature to all humankind: truth especially through the philosophers, good especially through the prophets and moralists, and beauty through the poets, artists, musicians, and mythmakers. He chose the Jewish people, especially Moses and the prophets, to be revealers of the infallible law of goodness. Yet many of the fathers of the church saw the Greek philosophers as fallible but also divinely