Philip Schaff,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Extant Fragments…
(1885)
“ And as certainly neither would Arcturus, resplendent as he is, ever boast his having the atoms possessed by Lucifer, nor would the Pleiades glory in being constituted of those of Orion. For well has Paul expressed the distinction when he says: “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.” ”
Philip Schaff,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Extant Fragments…
(1885)
“ But even though men like these—and miserable men they are, however they may believe themselves to be righteous—may choose not to admit it, there is a mighty Lord that made the sun, and gave it the impetus [14] for its course by His words. O ye blind ones, do these atoms of yours bring you the winter season and the rains, in order that the earth may yield food for you, and for all creatures living on it? ”
Philip Schaff,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Extant Fragments…
(1885)
“ Or who can allow that the perfect concord subsisting among the celestial bodies derives its harmony from instruments destitute both of concord and harmony? Or, again, if there is but one and the same substance [1] in all things, and if there is the same incorruptible nature [2] in all,—the only elements of difference being, as they aver, size and figure,—how comes it that there are some bodies divine and perfect, [3] and eternal, [4] as they would phrase it, or lasting, [5] as some one may prefer to express it ”
