Brownie

To use the word used by Paul, I believe they both understood and believed in the preeiminence of el Elyon. That of all the "gods" worshiped all around them, of all the gods that they themselves had perhaps worshiped in the past, El Elyon was superior, supreme, over all, not even to be compared with anything. What I think of when I think of EL ELYON is the word Transcendent...the most high God, far above!