Full Idea
Chrysippus says most clearly that no time is wholly present; for since the divisibility of continuous things is infinite, time as a whole is also subject to infinite divisibility by this method of division.
Gist of Idea
Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time
Source
report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by John Stobaeus - Anthology 1.08.42
A Reaction
But what is his reason for thinking that time is a continuous thing? There is a minimum time in quantum mechanics (the Planck Time), but do these quantum intervals overlap? Compare Idea 20819.
Book Reference
'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.88
Related Ideas
Idea 20818 The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
Idea 20819 The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]