Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 152

ed. Paul Wendland

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[152] ἀναλογίᾳ δὲ σχεδὸν τὰ πάντα ἐστὶν ἴσα, μικρά τε αὖ
καὶ μεγάλα ὅσα ἐν τῷ παντὶ κόσμῳ. λέγουσι γὰρ οἱ ἀκριβέστατα περὶ τῶν τῆς φύσεως ἐξητακότες, ὅτι ἀναλογίᾳ μὲν ἴσα τὰ τέτταρα στοιχεῖά ἐστιν, ἀναλογίᾳ δὲ καὶ ὁ κόσμος ἅπας κραθεὶς τὸ ἴσον ἑκάστῳ τῶν μερῶν ἀπονεμούσῃ συνέστη τε καὶ συσταθεὶς εἰς ἅπαν διαμένει·

Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 152 focus

[152] And nearly all things are equal as respects proportion, even all the little and all the great things in the whole world. For those who have examined the questions of natural philosophy with some accuracy say that the four elements are all equal in proportionate equality. And it is by proportion that the whole world is compounded together, and united, and endowed with consistency so as to remain firm for ever, proportion having distributed equality to each of its parts.

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