Note 058 According to Aristotle, the stars were homoousian to each other. "That Homoousius means of one substance in kind, hath been shown by Petavius, Curcellaeus, Cudworth, Le Clerc, etc., and to prove it would be actum agere." This is the just remark of Dr. Jortin (vol. ii. p. 212), who examines the Arian controversy with learning, candour, and ingenuity.

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Note to Chapter 21 of Decline and Fall by Gibbon