Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 104

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[104] 20 Δίχα τοίνυν τῶν εἰρημένων κἀκείνῳ χρήσαιτ’ ἄν τις εἰς πίστιν, ὃ καὶ τοὺς μὴ πέρα τοῦ μετρίου φιλονεικεῖν αἱρουμένους ἐπισπάσεται.
τῶν ἐν ταῖς συζυγίαις ἐναντίων ἀμήχανον τὸ μὲν εἶναι, τὸ δὲ μή· λευκοῦ γὰρ ὄντος ἀνάγκη καὶ μέλαν ὑπάρχειν καὶ μεγάλου βραχὺ καὶ περιττοῦ ἄρτιον καὶ γλυκέος πικρὸν καὶ ἡμέρας νύκτα καὶ ὅσα τούτοις ὁμοιότροπα. γενομένης δ’ ἐκπυρώσεως, ἀδύνατόν τι συμβήσεται· τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἕτερον ὑπάρξει τῶν ἐν ταῖς συζυγίαις. τὸ δὲ ἕτερον οὐκ ἔσται.
¹² φέρε δ’ οὑτωσὶ θεασώμεθα·

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.) — 104 focus

However, besides what has been here said, any one may use this argument also in corroboration of his opinion, which will certainly convince all those who are not determined to be obstinate beyond all bounds; of those things which in pairs are exactly contrary to one another it is impossible that one thing should be, and that the other should not be; for since there is white it follows as a matter of absolute necessity that there must also be black, and since there is a great there must likewise be a little; since there is an odd there must inevitably be an even; since there is a sweet there must be a bitter; since there is day there must be night; and so on in an infinite number of similar cases; but if a ¹ conflagration should take place, then something would ensue which is impossible; for then, of things in a pair, the one will happen and the other will not.

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De aeternitate mundi

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3 προϊδόμενοι M: προειδόμενοι UHP (v)
4 ἀπορῇ UP: ἀπορρῆ H, ἀπορεῖν M
5 ὅτε Η: ὅτι MUP τοσοῦτο U
6 μονονουχὶ M: μονονουχὶ καὶ UHP (v) ἐλάσεως] ἔλα . . . (spat.
3 —
4 litt.) M
7 ἀπειρομεγέθει codd.: ἀπείρῳ μεγέθει ἔχει καὶ τοῦτο M: ἔχει καὶ τοὺς Η ἔχει κατ’ αὐτοὺς v), oblitt. in P, τοὺς (om. ἔχει καὶ) U καὶ τοῦτο] κἀν τούτῳ conicio, κατὰ τοῦτο coni. Wendl. ὅτε δὲ M: ὅτε δὴ HP, ὅτι δὲ U N παλιγγενεσίαν MU: ἐπαγγελίαν ἐσίαν P. ἐπαγγελίαν αἰσίαν Η (Turn.) ἐκ τελείων τῶν μερῶν MHP: ἐκ τελείων μερῶν U: ἐκτελῆ τῶν μερῶν Mang., ἐκτελειοῦται μείων Cumont lacunam post οὐσίας indicavit Mang. (Bernays)
10 δὲ M δ’ ἔτι] δέ τι Η 11.
12 ἔστι δὲ] ἔστι δὴ Cumont
12 δυναμένων UHP: δυνάμεων M (v, sed Mang. corr. in adnot.) πραγμάτων Diels: πράγματος codd.
13 ἐκλογίσασθαι P
14 χρήσαιτ’ M: χρήσαιτο UHPE
15 ἰοὺς] τοῖς M πέρα] πέραν Mang. τοῦ μέτρου Ε φιλονικεῖν Cumont
18 πικρὸν] πικνὸν P
20 τὸ δ’ ἕτερον E

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3 Aet. Plac. I 18,
5 (Doxogr. p. 316 b 11) Ζήνων καὶ oi ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ἐντὸς μὲν ἰοῦ κόσμου μηδὲν εἶναι κενόν, ἔξω δ’ αὐτοῦ ἄπειρον (Zen. frg.
95 Arnim). Diog. La. VII 140 . . . ἔξωθεν δ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ κόσμου) περικεχυμένον εἶναί τύ κενὸν ἄπειρον, ὅπερ ἀσώματον εἶναι. Aet. Plac. II 9,
2 (Doxogr. p. 338, 1(1) οἱ Στωικοὶ (ἐκτὸς τοῦ κόσμου) εἶναι κενόν, εἰς κατὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν ἀναλύεται
6 κόσμος ἄπειρος ὤν. Chrysippi frg. 535. 538. 543 (Arnim).

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