Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 101

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[101] ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ παντὸς γενήσεται τοὐναντίον· τὸ μὲν γὰρ σπέρμα καὶ μεῖζον ἔσται καὶ πλείονα τόπον ἐφέξει, τὸ δ’ ἀποτέλεσμα βραχύτερον καὶ ἐν ἐλάττονι φανεῖται τόπῳ, καὶ ὁ κόσμος ἐκ σπέρματος συνιστάμενος
οὐκ ἐκ τοῦ κατ’ ὀλίγον ἐπιδώσει πρὸς αὔξησιν, ἀλλ’ ἔμπαλιν ἐξ ὄγκου μείζονος εἰς ἐλάττονα συναιρεθήσεται.

De Aeternitate Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Aeternitate Mundi (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.)

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On the Incorruptibility of the World First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 101 focus

[101] But in the case of the universe the exact contrary will take place, for here the seed will both be greater and will also fill a larger space; and the ultimate perfection at which the thing formed arrives will be smaller, and will appear in a smaller space; and the world, originally derived from a seed, will not progress from a very small thing towards increase, but, on the other hand, will be diminished from a greater magnitude to a smaller;

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