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Aristides next considers the sun, moon, and stars.
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The sun follows an ordered course, rises and sets, warms the earth, and serves the growth of plants.
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Its path is measured with other heavenly lights; it does not choose its own orbit.
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The same applies to moon and stars: they belong to the ordered heavens and therefore reveal ordering rather than being the ultimate Orderer.
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Aristides distinguishes glory from deity: a created light can be magnificent without being the Creator.
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What keeps an appointed course beneath a governing order cannot reasonably be the One who first established that order.