ABSTRACT
None of the Scriptural writers more profoundly felt the various aspects of the Divine perfection than the Psalmists. Though God pervades the universe, He transcends it. Unlike Pantheism, which identifies Nature with God, Judaism, while making Him the informing spirit of all things, distinguishes Him from them, and sets Him above them. The Divine greatness and gentleness are connected in the Hebrew Bible because they are but different aspects of the Divine omnipotence. Thus the God of Judaism is not a far-off God, outside the universe, remote from the life that fills it. Having made humanity, He has not left it in the grasp of a pitiless fate, without a thought for its happiness, without an ear for its cry. The meanest creature is sure of His solicitude, and man is at least equally sure of it.
