Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel)

Eusebius of Caesarea · c. 313-320 AD

385 of 399

Section 47

CHAPTER XLVIII — WHENCE THE STARS RECEIVE THEIR LIGHT.

'METRODORUS: the fixed stars are all illumined by the Sun.

'Heracleitus and the Stoics: the stars are fed from the exhalation of the Earth.

'Aristotle: the heavenly bodies have no need of nourishment; for they are not perishable but eternal.

'Plato: there is a common nourishment of the whole world and of the stars from themselves.'

Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel): CHAPTER XLVIII — WHENCE THE STARS RECEIVE THEIR LIGHT. · Theoria