Philo Judaeus, Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis, ed. Paul Wendland, 38

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[38] ταῖς μὲν γὰρ
χειμεριναῖς τροπαῖς τὰ πέταλα μαρανθέντα εἰς τοὔδαφος χεῖται, οἵ τε ἐν ταῖς κληματίσι λεγόμενοι πρὸς τῶν γεωπόνων ὀφθαλμοὶ καθάπερ ἐν τοῖς ζῴοις καταμύουσι, τά τε πρὸς τὰς ἐκφύσεις στόμια πάντα ἔσφιγκται τῆς φύσεως εἴσω τότε συνειλημμένης καὶ ἡσυχαζούσης, ἵνα διαπνεύσασα οἷά τις ἀθλητὴς προηγωνισμένος καὶ συλλεξαμένη τὴν ἰδίαν ἰσχὺν πρὸς
τοὺς ἐθάδας ἄθλους ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς ἀπαντᾷ.

Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Unchangeableness of God First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 38 focus

[38] for at the time of the winter solstice their leaves wither and fall to the ground; and the eyes, as they are called by the agricultural labourers, which appear on the young shoots, close up like the eyes of animals, and all the mouths which are calculated to send forth young buds, are bound up; their internal nature being at that time confined and quiet, in order that, when it has taken breath, like a wrestler who has gone through a little preliminary exercise, and having again collected its appropriate strength, it may return again to its customary operations. And this happens at the seasons of both spring and summer,

Philo Judaeus Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis 38

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