(interpreters) is trickery and not truth. Now Aratus speaks thus:-- “Many and like are they, going hither and thither, Daily they wheel in heaven always and ever [that is, all the stars] Yet none changes his abode[179] ever so little: but with perfect exactness Ever the Pole is fixed, and holds the earth in the midst of all As equipoise of all, and around it leads Heaven itself.”-- (Aratus, _Phæn._, vv. 45, 46.) [Sidenote: p. 122.] 3. He says that the stars in heaven are πολέας, that is, turning,[180] because of their going about ceaselessly from East to West and from West to East in a spherical figure. But he says there is coiled round the Bears themselves, like the stream of some river, a great marvel of a terrible dragon, and this it is, he says, that the Devil in the (Book of) Job says to God: “I have been walking to and fro under heaven and going round about,”[181] that is, turning hither and thither and inspecting what is happening. For they consider that the Dragon is set below the Arctic Pole, from this highest pole gazing upon all things and beholding all things, so that none of those that are done shall escape him. For though all the stars in the heaven can set, this Pole alone never sets, but rising high above the horizon inspects all things and beholds all things, and nothing of what is done, he says, can escape him. “Where (most) Settings and risings mingle with one another.”-- (Aratus, _Phæn._, v. 61.) [Sidenote: p. 123.] he says, indeed, that his head is set. For over against the rising and setting of the two hemispheres lies the head of Draco, so that, he says, nothing escapes him immediately either of things in the West or of things in the East, but the Beast knows all things at once. And there over against the very head of Draco is the form of a man made visible by reason of the stars, which Aratus calls “a wearied image,” and like one in toil; but he names it the “Kneeler.”[182] Now Aratus says that he does not know what this toil is and this marvel which turns in heaven. But the heretics, wishing to found their own tenets on the story of the stars, and giving their minds very carefully to these things, say that the Kneeler is Adam, as Moses said, according to the decree of God guarding the head of the Dragon and the Dragon (guarding) his heel.[183] For thus says Aratus:-- “Holding the sole of the right foot of winding Draco.”-- (_Phæn._, vv. 63-65.)