Euthymius Zigabenus, Panoplia Dogmatica; Theodoretus, Historia Religiosa

and smaller than the very dust itself. From these, therefore, Epicurus said that everything consists, as if by analysis from the great masses; and finding nothing simpler or smaller. And atoms are also said in the neuter; and in the feminine, atoms.

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Against the Epicureans; From the one among the holy, Gregory the Theologian, from the second theological discourse:

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For where God is, and the creative and sustaining cause of all things, the teacher, and the natural law; impinging upon us who are seen; and it is fixed well and for those who travel; and immovably, if I may so say, for those moving and being carried. He, through the things seen and ordered, calculates the leader of these; for how would the whole have stood or existed if no one had brought all things into being and gathered them? For not even a singer, seeing a lyre well-tuned; and its harmony and good order; or hearing a lyre and its psalmody, will consider the creator of the guitar himself and the guitar-player, and will run back to him in his mind; even if he is ignorant in his perception. So also to us, the creative is clear; and the one who keeps and makes the created things; even if it is not grasped by the mind; and it is very unknown; the one who does not go forward to these things willingly; and follows the natural proofs.

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Against the same, from the same discourse:

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But to me, the discourse, showing itself to those desiring God; and not enduring to be without a leader and without a captain; then having impinged upon the things seen and meeting those from the beginning; it did not stop even at these; for it was not reasonable to give the leadership to those equal in honor according to perception; and through these, it leads to that which is above these; and through whom the being remains for these. For what is it that wove the heavenly and the earthly; and as many as are through the air and as many as are in the water; or rather the things before these; heaven; and earth; and air; and the nature of water; who mixed and divided these; what is the communion of these toward