I think, however, that we must take ἅπτεται in the same sense all through the fragment, so I do not translate "is in contact with," as Diels does. It is clear that Death, Sleep, Waking correspond to Earth, Water, Air in Herakleitos (cf. ↑ I adopt the fuller text of Diels here.↑ By "these things" he probably meant all kinds of injustice."Life, Sleep, Death is the threefold ladder in psychology, as in physics Fire, Water, Earth." ↑ I have departed from the punctuation of Bywater here, and supplied a fresh object to the verb as suggested by Gomperz ( Arch.The alternative reading συλλάψιες is preferred by Hoffmann, Gr. The reading συνάψιες seems to be well attested and gives an excellent sense. 1), there is no reason to doubt the words which follow. I now think also that, if we understand the term λόγος in the sense explained above (p. Bywater omits the words, but I think they must belong to Herakleitos. John's Gospel," in The Expositor, 1916, pp. See Rendel Harris, "The Origin of the Prologue to St. In any case, the Johannine doctrine of the λόγος has nothing to do with Herakleitos or with anything at all in Greek philosophy, but comes from the Hebrew Wisdom literature. The Stoic interpretation given by Marcus Aurelius, iv. It is only by taking the words in this way that we can understand Aristotle's hesitation as to the proper punctuation ( Rhet. How could Herakleitos say that his discourse had always existed? The answer is that in Ionic ἐών means "true" when coupled with words like λόγος Cf. 2.) A difficulty has been raised about the words ἐόντος αἰεί.
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