Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 243
be composed of two, or three, or even of four elements, who
that has even a small portion of sense does not perceive that
there must have been some one who collected several into
one, and preserving the measure of tempering, made a solid
body out of diverse parts? This some one, therefore, we call
Yahweh, the Creator of the world, and acknowledge Him as
the author of the universe.
Chapter XV: Theories of Creation
losophers, inquiring into the beginnings
of the world, have gone some in one way and some in another.
In short, Pythagoras says that numbers are the elements of its
beginnings; Callistratus says qualities; Alcmaeon, contrarieties;
Anaximander, immensity; Anaxagoras, equalities of parts;
Epicurus, atoms; Diodorus, akatonomaston () 3
that is, things in which there are no parts; Asclepius, Ogkoi, 4
which we may call tumors or swellings; the geometricians,
ends; Democritus, ideas; Thales, water; Heraclitus, fire; Diogenes,
air; Parmenides, earth; Zeno, Empedocles, and Plato,
fire, water, air, and earth. Aristotle also introduces a fifth element,
which he called akatonomaston; that is, that which cannot
be named; without doubt indicating Elohim who made the
world, by joining the four elements into one. Whether, therefore,
there be two, or three, or four, or more, or innumerable
elements, of which the world consists, in every supposition
there is shown to be an Elohim, who collected many into one,
and again drew them, when collected, into diverse species;
and by this it is proved that the machine of the world could
not have subsisted without a maker and a disposer.
3 -kah-to-NOM-a-
her
words. Found at http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/PHRT.pdf. It
seems to have a con
English lexicon: 1, as a negative prefix, 2596, and 3551. References and explanations
of this footnote and the next were supplied by Jackson Snyder.
4 -
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0065-9711(1909)40%3C5%3ATAOOHA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q. It seems to
have a connec