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Preparation for the Gospel
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903
Book 15, 35. Whether the World is Imperishable
‘PYTHAGORAS, and Plato, and the Stoics say that the world was created by God; and that, so far as it depends on its nature, it is perishable, because it is perceptible by sense through being corporeal; nevertheless it will not be destroyed, through the providence and support of God.
‘Epicurus says that it is perishable, because created, like an animal or a plant.
‘Xenophanes: the world is uncreated, and eternal, and imperishable.
‘Aristotle: the part of the world beneath the Moon may be affected by change, and the things terrestrial therein are doomed to perish.’