Preparation for the Gospel

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903

Book 15, 40. Concerning the Outside of the World, Whether It is a Vacuum

‘THE Pythagoreans: outside the world there is a vacuum, into and out of which the world breathes.

‘The Stoics: infinite (vacuum), into which the world is also dissolved by the conflagration.

‘Poseidonius: not infinite, but sufficiently large for the dissolution.

‘Plato, Aristotle: no vacuum either outside the world or inside.’