Note 113 — Chapter III
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"Jove's presence fills all space, upholds this ball; All need his aid; his power sustains us all, For we his offspring are." Aratus, "The Phænomena," book v. p. 5.
Aratus was a poet of Cilicia, Paul's native province. He flourished B.C. 277.
"Great and divine Father, whose names are many, But who art one and the same unchangeable, almighty power; O thou supreme Author of nature! That governest by a single unerring law! Hail King! For thou art able, to enforce obedience from all frail mortals, Because we are all thine offspring, The image and the echo only of thy eternal voice." Cleanthes, "Hymn to Jupiter."
Cleanthes was the pupil of Zeno, and his successor as chief of the Stoic philosophers.