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Book I Chapter 1 · I.1.29b.3–I.1.29b.4
Ancient Greek
p. 6629b ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ (γʹ)
Ἡράκλειτος τὸ περιοδικὸν πῦρ ἀΐδιον, εἱμαρμένην δὲ λόγον ἐκ τῆς ἐναντιοδρομίας δημιουργὸν τῶν ὄντων.
Ζήνων ὁ Στωικὸς νοῦν κόσμου πύρινον.
Μνησαγόρας τὸν κόσμον, τὴν πρώτην οὐσίαν ἔχοντα ἀπὸ πνεύματος.
Βόηθος τὸν αἰθέρα θεὸν ἀπεφήνατο.
Παρμενίδης τὸ ἀκίνητον καὶ πεπερασμένον σφαιροειδές.
Μέλισσος καὶ Ζήνων τὸ ἓν καὶ πᾶν καὶ μόνον ἀΐδιον καὶ ἄπειρον.
29b ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ (δʹ)
⟨Ἐμπεδοκλῆς τὸν σφαῖρον καὶ⟩ τὸ ἕν, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἓν τὴν ἀνάγκην, ὕλην δὲ αὐτοῦ τὰ τέσσαρα στοιχεῖα, εἴδη δὲ τὸ νεῖκος καὶ τὴν φιλίαν. Λέγει δὲ καὶ τὰ στοιχεῖα θεοὺς καὶ τὸ μῖγμα τούτων τὸν κόσμον καὶ προσαναλυθήσεται τὸ μονοειδές· καὶ θείας μὲν οἴεται τὰς ψυχάς, θείους δὲ καὶ τοὺς μετέχοντας αὐτῶν καθαροὺς καθαρῶς.
Πολέμων τὸν κόσμον θεὸν ἀπεφήνατο.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 1
p. 6729b ⟨Aëtius⟩ (3)
Heraclitus identifies God with eternal fire moving in cycles, and fate with reason that produces existing things through the movement of opposites.
Zeno the Stoic identifies God with the fiery mind of the cosmos.
Mnesagoras identifies God with the cosmos, whose primary substance comes from breath.
Boethus declared aether to be God.
Parmenides identifies God with what is motionless, bounded, and spherical.
Melissus and Zeno identify God with the One that is all, alone eternal and unlimited.69
29b ⟨Aëtius⟩ (4)
⟨Empedocles identifies God with the Sphere and⟩ the One; the One he identifies with necessity, its matter with the four elements, and its forms with strife and friendship. He also calls the elements gods and their mixture the cosmos, and says that the uniform whole will be further dissolved. He considers souls divine, and also regards as divine those who, themselves pure, partake of them purely.70
Polemo declared the cosmos to be God.
Socrates
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