Preserver synonyms

To attach a clear and definite meaning to the Cartesian doctrine of God, to show how much of it comes from the Christian theology and how much from the logic of idealism, how far the conception of a personal being as creator and preserver mingles with the pantheistic conception of an infinite and perfect something which is all in all, would be to go beyond Descartes and to ask for a solution of difficulties of which he was 1 Ouvres, vi.

He was also the god of music, the special preserver of poets, and to him the lyre was sacred.

He stumbled as he climbed the steps to the pulpit and grasped the podium like a life preserver.

But, while he caused storms and shipwrecks, he could also send favouring winds; hence he was known as Soler, " the preserver."

Whenever this occupation took place, Ptolemy became master of Palestine in 312 B.C., and though, as Josephus complains, he may have disgraced his title, Soler, by momentary severity at the outset, later he created in the minds of the Jews the impression that in Palestine or in Egypt he was - in deed as well as in name - their preserver.