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Book I Chapter 18 · I.18.2.3–I.18.2.4
Ancient Greek
p. 4142 Ἑρμοῦ · 3
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Πηλίκον οὖν δεῖ τὸν τόπον εἶναι ἐν ᾧ κινεῖται καὶ ποταπὸν τὴν φύσιν; Οὐ πολὺ μείζονα, ἵνα δυνηθῇ δέξασθαι τῆς φορᾶς τὴν συνέχειαν καὶ μὴ θλιβόμενον τὸ κινούμενον ὑπὸ τῆς στενότητος ἐπίσχῃ τὴν κίνησιν;
⟨ἈΣΚ.⟩ Παμμέγεθές τι χρῆμα, ὦ Τρισμέγιστε.
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Ποταπῆς δὲ φύσεως; τῆς ἐναντίας ἄρα, ὦ Ἀσκληπιέ; σώματι δὲ ἐναντία φύσις τὸ ἀσώματον;
⟨ἈΣΚ.⟩ Ὡμολόγηται.
2 Ἑρμοῦ · 4
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Ἀσώματος οὖν ὁ τόπος, τὸ δὲ ἀσώματον ἢ ⟨τὸ⟩ θεῖόν ἐστιν ἢ ὁ θεός. Τὸ δὲ θεῖον λέγω νῦν οὐ τὸ γενητόν, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἀγένητον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 18
p. 4152 Hermes: Incorporeal place
⟨Hermes⟩ How large, then, must the place in which it moves be, and what must its nature be? Must it not be much greater, so that it can accommodate the continuity of its movement, and the moving thing does not stop moving because it is cramped by the narrowness?
⟨Asclepius⟩ Something immensely great, Trismegistus.
⟨Hermes⟩ And of what nature? The opposite nature, then, Asclepius? And the nature opposite to body is the incorporeal?
⟨Asclepius⟩ That is agreed.503
2 Hermes: The divine and God
⟨Hermes⟩ Place, then, is incorporeal, and the incorporeal is either ⟨the⟩ divine or God. By the divine I now mean what has not come into being, rather than what has come into being.504
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