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the measures that belong to the sun itself and those that it sets up? First, we can understand μέτρα in reference to the passage and course of the sun. Ἥλιος, as the fire that travels the heaven, has specific measures in its course like the measures of morning light, of midday heat and of subdued twilight. If we look only toward the phenomenon of the sun's course, we see that Ἥλιος exhibits no even, homogeneous radiation, but rather timely differences in the way of being luminous. At the same time, however, by the measures through which the sun passes in its passage, the nourishing fire is apportioned in various ways to the growth of the earth that is found in the sun's brightness. The second meaning of μέτρα lies therein: the measures of light and warmth which the sun apportions to growth. We can on one hand distinguish the measures which are exhibited by the course of the sun itself, and on the other hand those measures which the sun sets up to what it shines on in the way that the sun apportions the fiery to it. μέτρα can thus be understood in a two-fold manner: the μέτρα of the sun's course and the μέτρα that works down from the sun's course to what nourishes itself from the sun's light. However, does the sun also have μέτρα in yet a completely different sense? Is Ἥλιος, which is bound to the measures of its course and which apportions from there the nourishing tire to everything found in the sunlight, is this Ἥλιος squeezed into {GA 15: 67} measures in a completely other sense? Is there perhaps also μέτρα in such a manner that the entire double domain of light is determined by measures? When Heraclitus says, "For Ἥλιος will not overstep his measures," a natural law of Ἥλιος is in no way formulated here. It is not a matter of the insight that the sun's course is subject to any inviolable natural law, for then the second sentence would have no meaning. In this sentence it says that in case Ἥλιος should overstep his measures the Erinyes, helpers of Dike, would track him down and bring him to account. But what is a restriction, a holding to measure of Ἥλιος? Ἥλιος will not overstep his measures. Can we imagine at all that he would be able to overstep his measures? We have brought to mind two ways in which he would not take the correct way across the vault of heaven. One could imagine that he suddenly stops, perhaps at the commend of Joshua for the time in which Joshua waged battle against the Amorites. That would be an overstepping of the μέτρα of his own nature. In such a case he would no longer be in accord with his own nature of fiery power. The sun could change her own essence if she traveled along the vault of heaven in a manner other than in accord with nature. The sun could overstep her measures if she ran from north to south instead of from east to west. However, a completely different manner of overstepping the boundary would be supposed if Ἥλιος were to break into a domain of which we could not speak further at the moment, for this domain lies beyond the brightness of Ἥλιος in which the many are gathered. Then Ἥλιος goes out of the sun's domain in which everything