Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 102

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[102] τὸ δὲ λεγόμενον ῥᾴδιον συνιδεῖν· ἅπαν σῶμα ἀναλυόμενον εἰς πῦρ ἀναλύεταί τε καὶ χεῖται, σβεννυμένης δὲ τῆς ἐν αὐτῷ φλογός, στέλλεται καὶ συνάγεται· πίστεων δὲ τοῖς οὕτως ἐμφανέσι πρὸς μαρτυρίαν ὡς ἀδηλουμένοις οὐδεμία χρεία. καὶ ¹² μὴν ὁ κόσμος ὁ πυρωθεὶς γενήσεται μείζων, ἅτε συμπάσης τῆς οὐσίας εἰς τὸν λεπτότατον ἀναλυθείσης αἰθέρα. ὅ μοι δοκοῦσι καὶ οἱ Στωικοὶ προϊδόμενοι κενὸν ἄπειρον ἐκτὸς τοῦ κόσμου τῷ λόγῳ καταλιπεῖν, ἵν’, ἐπειδὴ χύσιν ἀπέραντόν τινα ἔμελλε λήψεσθαι, μὴ ἀπορῇ τοῦ δεξομένου χωρίου τὴν ἀνάχυσιν.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 102 focus

[102] and it is easy to see the truth of what is here said. Every body, when it is resolved into fire, is dissolved, and melted, and diffused; and when the flame which is in it is extinguished, it is then contracted and shrunk up to nothing; but there is no need of arguments to prove a thing which is so clear, as if it were obscure; and, indeed, the world, if consumed by fire, will become greater, inasmuch as all its essence will then be dissolved into the thinnest air; and it appears to me that the Stoics have foreseen this, and on that account have, in their arguments, assumed that a vacuum of infinite extent will be left abandoned on the outside of the world; that so, since it is fated to be subjected to a certain diffusion of boundless extent, it may not be in want of a place which may be capable of receiving that diffusion.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 δὲ] δὴ Buecheler (Cumont) αὐτοῦ Mang. : αὐτῶν codd.; αὐτῷ Bernays (Cumont)
2 διττὴν] δεῖ τὴν Buecheler (Cumont)
4 καὶ] κἀκ Diels (Cumont) ἣν bis scripsit M
5 δὴ] δὲ coni. Mang. λέγων HP
7 ἀναλωθέντων coni. Buecheler
8 χωλὴν HP: χολὴν HP: χολὴν σχ. λὴν M; κωφὴ coni. Mang. ἀτελῆ καὶ transp. U
9 ὧ HP: ὡς MU ἐφιδρύεσθαι H (et ut vid. P): ἐφυδρίεσθαι M, ἐφιδρῦσθαι U
10 αὐτῆς U: ἑαυτῆς MHP ἐναργείας Mang.: ἐνεργείας codd.
11 ἔτι MP: ἔτι ex ἔστι corr. U. ἔστι Η 13.
14 περιμηκέστατα καὶ πιότατα transp. U
15 τὸν ante γειτνιῶντα om. M
16 γενηθέντα M
18 ἐφέξει P: ὑφέξει MUH
21 συναναιρεθήσεται M; συναχθήσεται coni. Mang.
22 ἀναλύεται corruptum: ἐλαύνεται conicio (cf. 104,6 ἐλάσεως) ; διαλύεται Bernays, ἀναδίδοται coni. Diels τε om. H (v)
23 πίστεων H: πίστεως P, πιστέον M, πειστέον U
24 οὕτως] οὗ M

2.
17 sq. Plut. de commun. notit.
35 p. 1077 a ἀλλά τῶν φυσικωτέρων λεγομένων ἀρ’ οὐ παρὰ τὴν ἔννοιάν ἐστι σπέρμα πλέον εἶναι καὶ μεῖζον ἢ τὸ γεννώμενον ἐξ αὐτοῦ;

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 102

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