Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — and from water soul."
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
And Athamas the Pythagorean having said, "Thus was produced the beginning of the universe; and there are four roots--fire, water, air, earth: for from these is the origination of what is produced,"--Empedocles of Agrigentum wrote:--
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