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On the Theophania
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843
The Peripatetics too, so attached themselves to a belief, similar to that of the …
The Peripatetics too, so attached themselves to a belief, similar to that of the Originator of this Philosophy, that they supposed the soul which is in man to be mortal; and affirmed, that its form and body, was (what they termed) the Entelechia. For the sake of the present life,—which alone they acknowledged,—they submitted to the many. They believed too, that those were never Gods, which were (made) such by the law of the commonwealth: they submitted themselves (nevertheless to these) through the fear of death, and of the punishment of the Law.