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poreal, that you should rather manifest by it Gods than points; or when you speak of the corporeal, that you should not be thought to speak of the earth rather than of dæmons? For neither is this very thing defined, whether Gods and dæmons have bodies, or are carried in bodies, as in a vehicle, or use them, or comprehend them, or are alone the same[1] with body. But, perhaps, it is not proper to examine this distinction very minutely. For you do not propose it as your own decision, but you exhibit it as the opinion of others.
We will exchange, therefore, this division for the doubt which may be adduced by you against the present opinion. "For," it may be said by you, "how, conformably to what we assert, can the sun and moon, and the visible natures in the heavens, be Gods, if the Gods are alone incorporeal?"
To this we reply, that the celestial divinities are not comprehended by bodies, but contain bodies in their divine lives and
- ↑ For τουτο here, it is necessary to read ταυτο.
