GEN1024 Just as Plato, in his task of uniting all values by acknowledging their complementarity, recognized that what is fairest and best must be most real, so the Torah discovers that what is most real, what is divine, must be not only absolute but fair and good.  Accordingly, [this verse]. Saadiah Gaon makes the underlying reasoning explicit: God rules because He is just; the combination of rule with caprice would be possible, he argues, only through a power struggle.   But God did not come to power in some pagan theomachy.   He rules eternally.   Goodness is constitutive in the very idea of God.   Thus, when we read that God’s throne is firm and everlasting Psalms 45:7, c. 9:5, 8; 47:9, we understand not only God’s ontic stability but His legitimacy, the stability that only justice brings Psalms 93. God stands at the summit of a series in which goodness and reality go hand in hand.   JHRHV 39-40