Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1478
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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IV. He [2930] says that plants are neither nourished nor increased from the earth. For he says, let any one consider how the earth can be changed and taken up into the substance of trees. For then the place of the earth which lay around, and was drawn up through the roots into the whole compass of the tree, where the tree grew, must needs be hollowed out; so that such a thing as they hold respecting the flux of bodies, is absurd. For how could the earth first enter in through the roots into the trunks of the plants, and then, passing through their channels into all their branches, be t…
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