Hippolytus

“ Now Simon, both foolishly and knavishly paraphrasing the law of Moses, makes his statements (in the manner following) : For when Moses asserts that “God is a burning and consuming fire,” [2] taking what is said by Moses not in its correct sense, he affirms that fire is the originating principle of the universe. (But Simon) does not consider what the statement is which is made, namely, that it is not that God is a fire, but a burning and consuming fire, (thereby) not only putting a violent sense upon the actual law of Moses, but even plagiarizing from Heraclitus the Obscure. ”

“ Plato (styles) “intelligible” and “sensible.” And the manifest portion of the fire comprises all things in itself, whatsoever any one might discern, or even whatever objects of the visible creation [4] he may happen to overlook. ”