Preparation for the Gospel

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903

Book 15, 25. On the Figure of the Sun

‘ANAXIMENES: the Sun is flat like a plate.

‘Heracleitus: like a boat, concave.

‘The Stoics: spherical, like the universe and the stars.

‘Epicurus: the aforesaid descriptions are all possible.’

Such is their Sun, the mighty god of all things visible in heaven. But Moses and the Hebrew oracles waste no labour on any of these matters.