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firmament," nor with his mind did he look down to the ground; for he would have learned that "the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord" and that "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof" and; "For after these things, says the Lord, he looked upon the earth and filled it with his good things; the soul of every living creature covered its face." But if they are not utterly blind, let them consider the manifold multitude of animals, those on land, the winged, those in the water, and let them perceive how true has been the testimony of the master in his judgement of all things; "And all things according to his command have appeared good." These things I have culled from the numerous works composed against Epicurus by Dionysius, our bishop. But it is time to move on to those concerning Aristotle and the school of the Stoic philosophers, and to survey the remaining things of the admirable natural philosophers, so that we might also provide our account of the departure from these things to the contentious.

15.Pin.t 15 THESE THINGS THE FIFTEENTH BOOK CONTAINS OF THE PREPARATION FOR THE GOSPEL

15.Pin.1 1. Preface concerning the whole subject 2. Concerning the philosophy of Aristotle and the accounts about the man. From the writings of Aristocles the Peripatetic. 3. Concerning the doctrines of Aristotle, in disagreement with the Hebrews and Plato 4. Of Atticus the Platonist against Aristotle, in disagreement with Moses and Plato in his discourse on the end 5. Of the same against the same, in disagreement with Moses and Plato in his discourse on providence 6. Of the same against the same, in disagreement with Moses and Plato in not allowing the world to be created 7. Of the same against the same, who postulates a fifth substance of bodies, which neither Moses nor Plato knows 8. Of the same against the same, and on his celestial theories in disagreement with Plato, things about which Moses is not curious 9. Of the same against the same, and on the immortality of the soul in disagreement with Plato and the Hebrew scriptures 10. From the second book of Plotinus on the immortality of the soul, against Aristotle who said the soul is an entelechy 11. Of Porphyry on the same subject. From his works against Boethus concerning the soul 12. Against the same, in disagreement with Plato also in his discourse on the universal soul 13. Against the same for mocking also the Ideas in Plato; which the Hebrew scriptures also, already before, had established were not unknown 14. Concerning the philosophy of the Stoics, and how Zeno delivered his discourse on first principles 15. What opinion the Stoics introduce concerning God and concerning the constitution of the universe 16. Of Porphyry against the Stoic opinion concerning God 17. That being cannot be body, according to the Stoics 18. How the Stoics hold their doctrine concerning the conflagration of the universe 19. How the Stoics hold their doctrine concerning the palingenesis of all things 20. How the same hold their doctrine concerning the soul 21. A refutation by Longinus against the Stoic doctrine concerning the soul 22. Against the Stoics, that the soul cannot be corporeal 23. Opinions of the natural philosophers, from Plutarch; Concerning the sun 24. Concerning the size of the sun 25. Concerning the shape of the sun 26. Concerning the moon 27. Concerning the size of the moon 28. Concerning the shape of the moon 29. Concerning the illuminations of the moon 30. What is the substance of the stars, planetary and fixed 31. Concerning the shapes of the stars 32. How the world was constituted 33. Whether the universe is one 34. Whether the world is ensouled, governed by providence 35. Whether the world is imperishable 36. From whence the world is nourished 37. From what first principle God began to create the world 38. Concerning the order of the world 39. What is the cause of the world

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στερέωμα,» οὔτε τῇ διανοία κατεῖδεν εἰς τοὔδαφος· ἔμαθε γὰρ ἂν ὅτι «τοῦ ἐλέους κυρίου πλήρης ἡ γῆ» καὶ ὅτι «τοῦ κυρίου ἡ γῆ καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς» καί· «Μετὰ ταῦτα γάρ φησι κύριος εἰς τὴν γῆν ἐπέβλεψε καὶ ἐνέπλησεν αὐτὴν τῶν ἀγαθῶν αὐτοῦ· ψυχὴν παν14.27.12 τὸς ζῴου ἐκάλυψε τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῆς.» εἰ δὲ μὴ σφόδρα τυφλώττουσιν, ἐπισκεψάσθωσαν τὴν παμποίκιλον τῶν ζῴων πολυπλήθειαν, τὰ χερσαῖα, τὰ πτηνά, τὰ ἔνυδρα, καὶ κατανοησάτωσαν ὡς ἀληθὴς ἐπὶ τῇ πάντων κρίσει γέγονεν ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ δεσπότου· «Καὶ πάντα κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ πρόσταξιν πέφηνε καλά.»« 14.27.13 Ταῦτά μοι ἀπὸ πλείστων ἐξήνθισται τῶν πρὸς Ἐπίκουρον ∆ιονυσίῳ τῷ καθ' ἡμᾶς ἐπισκόπῳ πεποιημένων. μετελθεῖν δὲ καιρὸς τοὺς περὶ τὸν Ἀριστοτέλη καὶ τὴν τῶν Στωϊκῶν φιλοσόφων αἵρεσιν τά τε λοιπὰ τῆς τῶν θαυμαστῶν φυσιολόγων ἐπιθεωρῆσαι, ὡς ἂν καὶ τῆς ἐκ τούτων ἀναχωρήσεως τὸν ἐξ ἡμῶν ἀπολογισμὸν παράσχοιμεν τοῖς φιλεγκλήμοσιν.

15.Pin.t ΙΕ ΤΑ∆Ε ΤΟ ΠΕΝΤΕΚΑΙ∆ΕΚΑΤΟΝ ΠΕΡΙΕΧΕΙ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗΣ ΠΡΟΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗΣ

15.Pin.1 αʹ. Προοίμιον περὶ ἁπάσης τῆς ὑποθέσεως βʹ. Περὶ τῆς κατ' Ἀριστοτέλην φιλοσοφίας καὶ τῶν περὶ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἱστορουμένων Ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ Περιπατητικοῦ γʹ. Περὶ τῶν κατὰ Ἀριστοτέλην δογμάτων, διενεχθέντα Ἑβραίοις καὶ Πλάτωνι δʹ. Ἀττικοῦ Πλατωνικοῦ πρὸς Ἀριστοτέλην, διενεχθέντα Μωσεῖ καὶ Πλάτωνι ἐν τῷ περὶ τοῦ τέλους λόγῳ εʹ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν, διενεχθέντα Μωσεῖ καὶ Πλάτωνι ἐν τῷ περὶ προνοίας λόγῳ ʹ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν, διενεχθέντα Μωσεῖ καὶ Πλάτωνι ἐν τῷ μὴ συγχωρεῖν γενητὸν εἶναι τὸν κόσμον ζʹ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν, πέμπτην σωμάτων ὑποτιθέμενον οὐσίαν, ἣν οὔτε Μωσῆς οὔτε Πλάτων γινώσκει ηʹ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐν τοῖς κατ' οὐρανὸν θεωρήμασι διενεχθέντα τῷ Πλάτωνι ἅτινα Μωσῆς οὐ πολυπραγμονεῖ θʹ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐν τοῖς περὶ ἀθανασίας ψυχῆς διενεχθέντα τῷ Πλάτωνι καὶ τοῖς Ἑβραίων λόγοις ιʹ. Πλωτίνου ἐκ τοῦ περὶ ἀθανασίας ψυχῆς δευτέρου πρὸς Ἀριστοτέλην ἐντελέχειαν τὴν ψυχὴν εἶναι φήσαντα ιαʹ. Πορφυρίου περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Ἀπὸ τῶν πρὸς Βόηθον περὶ ψυχῆς ιβʹ. Πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν διενεχθέντα τῷ Πλάτωνι καὶ ἐν τῷ περὶ καθόλου ψυχῆς λόγῳ ιγʹ. Πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν διαπαίξαντα καὶ τὰς παρὰ τῷ Πλάτωνι ἰδέας· ἃς οὐκ ἀγνοεῖν καὶ οἱ Ἑβραίων ἤδη πρότερον συνέστησαν λόγοι ιδʹ. Περὶ τῆς τῶν Στωϊκῶν φιλοσοφίας ὅπως τε ὁ Ζήνων τὸν περὶ ἀρχῶν ἀπεδίδου λόγον ιεʹ. Ὁποίαν δόξαν ἐπάγοντα οἱ Στωϊκοὶ περὶ θεοῦ καὶ περὶ συστάσεως τοῦ παντός ιʹ. Πορφυρίου πρὸς τὴν τῶν Στωϊκῶν περὶ θεοῦ δόξαν ιζʹ. Ὅτι οὐκ ἂν εἴη σῶμα τὸ ὂν κατὰ τοὺς Στωϊκούς ιηʹ. Ὅπως οἱ Στωϊκοὶ περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς ἐκπυρώσεως δοξάζουσιν ιθʹ. Ὅπως δοξάζουσιν οἱ Στωϊκοὶ περὶ τῆς παλιγγενεσίας τῶν ὅλων κʹ. Ὅπως οἱ αὐτοὶ περὶ ψυχῆς δοξάζουσιν καʹ. Λογγίνου πρὸς τὴν τῶν Στωϊκῶν περὶ ψυχῆς δόξαν ἀντίρρησις κβʹ. Πρὸς τοὺς Στωϊκούς, ὅτι οὐ δύναται σωματικὴ εἶναι ἡ ψυχή κγʹ. ∆όξαι τῶν φυσικῶν φιλοσόφων ἀπὸ τῶν Πλουτάρχου· Περὶ ἡλίου κδʹ. Περὶ μεγέθους ἡλίου κεʹ. Περὶ σχήματος ἡλίου κʹ. Περὶ σελήνης κζʹ. Περὶ μεγέθους σελήνης κηʹ. Περὶ σχήματος σελήνης κθʹ. Περὶ φωτισμῶν σελήνης λʹ. Τίς ἡ οὐσία τῶν ἄστρων πλανήτων καὶ ἀπλανῶν λαʹ. Περὶ σχημάτων ἀστέρων λβʹ. Πῶς συνέστηκεν ὁ κόσμος λγʹ. Εἰ ἓν τὸ πᾶν λδʹ. Εἰ ἔμψυχος ὁ κόσμος προνοίᾳ διοικούμενος λεʹ. Εἰ ἄφθαρτος ὁ κόσμος λʹ. Πόθεν τρέφεται ὁ κόσμος λζʹ. Ἀπὸ ποίου πρώτου ἤρξατο ὁ θεὸς κοσμοποιεῖν ληʹ. Περὶ τάξεως τοῦ κόσμου λθʹ. Τίς ἡ αἰτία τοῦ τὸν κόσμον