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Book I Chapter 20 · I.20.6.3–I.20.6.4
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p. 4766 Ἀρισταίου · 3
Ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸ ἀθάνατον τὸ ἀκάματον, τὸ δὲ ἀκάματον τὸ μὴ κάμνον ⟨κινοῦν⟩, ὁ δὲ θεὸς τοιοῦτος, ⟨ἀεὶ⟩ κινέων γα τὸ ὅλον καὶ τὸ πᾶν, φανερόν, ὡς ἀΐδιος κα εἴη ὁ κόσμος. Αἰ γὰρ ἀρχὰν λαψεῖται διακοσμάσιος, ἔκαμέ ποκα τὸ κινέον αὐτὸν κατ’ ἄμπανσιν διακοσμάσιος. Αἰ δέ γα κάμνοι καὶ ἀμπαύνοιτο τὸ κινέον, φθαρτὸν καὶ γενητὸν ὑπάρχον καὶ αὐτὸ πέρας ἕξει κινάσιος, καὶ τὸ ὅλον δὲ καὶ τὸ πᾶν διακοσμάσιος·
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ὥστ’ ἀνάγκα ἤτοι γένεσιν ἀναιρεῖν, ἢ γεννᾶν ἐκ τῶ μὴ ὄντος, ἢ τόνδε τὸν κόσμον καταλείπεται ἀθάνατον καὶ ἀγήρατον εἶμεν. Λέγοιτο δέ κα ἁρμονία φύσιος, ὅτι πάντα κατὰ λόγον φύεται τὸν ταύτας * * ποταλλήλως, ὡς ὁ τεχνίτας ποτὶ τὰν τέχναν, οὕτως θεὸς ποθ’ ἁρμονίαν. Ἅ τε γὰρ τέχνα ἐστὶ λόγος καὶ ἰδέα τῶν γινομένων καὶ ⟨ἁ⟩ φύσις.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 20
p. 4776 Aristaeus: The untiring mover
“Since what is immortal is untiring, and what is untiring does not tire ⟨as it moves things⟩, and God is of this kind, ⟨always⟩ moving the whole and the universe, it is clear that the world must be eternal.593 For if it is to receive a beginning of its ordering, what moves it must at some time have tired, in a cessation of that ordering. And if the mover were to tire and rest, it would be perishable and generated, and its own motion would have an end, as would the ordering of the whole and the universe.”594
6 Aristaeus: Harmony and nature
“Thus one must either deny generation or produce things from what does not exist; or else the remaining alternative is that this world is immortal and ageless.595 It might be called a harmony of nature, because everything grows according to its rational order ... in relation to one another: as the craftsman stands to his art, so God stands to harmony.596 For art, and likewise nature, is the rational principle and form of things that come into being.”
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