—along with Plutarch, Lūqiyūs, Kasīfāyis, and Empedocles—that the Creator is one and at rest.

Empedocles, however, said that He moves with a kind of rest, like the intellect, which moves with a kind of rest. This is possible, for if the intellect brings things into being, it moves with a kind of rest; thus the Originator necessarily moves