Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 107

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[107] 21 Θαυμάσαι δ’ ἄν τις τοὺς τὰς ἐκπυρώσεις καὶ παλιγγενεσίας θρυλοῦντας οὐ μόνον ἕνεκα τῶν εἰρημένων, οἷς ἀπελέγχονται ψευδοδοξοῦντες, ἀλλὰ καὶ δι’ ἐκεῖνο μάλιστα. τεττάρων γὰρ ὄντων στοιχείων, ἐξ ὧν
ὁ κόσμος συνέστηκε, γῆς, ὕδατος, ἀέρος, πυρός, τίνος ἕνεκα πάντων ἀποκληρωσάμενοι τὸ πῦρ τὰ ἄλλα φασὶν εἰς τοῦτο μόνον ἀναλυθήσεσθαι; δέον γάρ, εἴποι τις ἄν, — πῶς οὔκ; — εἰς ἀέρα ἢ ὕδωρ ἢ γῆν· ὑπερβάλλουσαι γὰρ καὶ ἐν τούτοις εἰσὶ δυνάμεις. ἀλλ’ οὐδεὶς ἐξαεροῦσθαι ἢ ἐξυδατοῦσθαι ἢ ἀπογεοῦσθαι τὸν κόσμον εἶπεν, ὥστ’ εἰκὸς ἦν μηδὲ ἐκπυροῦσθαι φάναι.

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.) — 107 focus

But a person may very likely wonder at those who talk about conflagrations and regenerations, not only on account of the arguments which I have just been adducing, by which they are convicted of maintaining erroneous opinions, but also above all other reasons for this one; for since there are four elements of which the world consists, namely, earth, water, air, and fire, why is it that they are to separate fire from all the others, and to affirm that all the others are dissolved into that one? For some one may say, if it is necessary that they should all be resolved into one, why should they not be resolved into air, or water, or earth? For these elements also contain powers of great magnitude; but yet no one has ever said that the world was to pass away into air, or into water, or into earth; so that it would be equally natural to deny that it is resolved into fire.

Notes on the current edition

De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 φέρε δὲ M πάντων γὰρ E
2 ἔστι Ε. ἐστι MUHP (v) τι om. UE ῥοία γὰρ E: γὰρ om. MUHP
3 πικνὸν (e πικρὸν corr.) M ψυχρὸν ἢ πυκνὸν transp. HP
4 ἐπιδείξαι Diels: ἐπιχῆται MUHP, ἐπίσχηται LE ἐπίσχηται δήπου E cod. a) ; ἐπίσχοι v; ἐπιφήναι conieceram, ἐπισημῆναι coni. Wendl. ἐκπυρώσεως E (Cumont) : πυρώσεως MUHP (v)
5 ἀλλωτρίωσις M
6 ὡς τοῖς] αὐτοῖς L (Turn.)
9 ἑτέρας om. Ε
10 μὲν] δὲ E; μὲν 003E; coni. Wendl. 11.
12 κατακρατούμενον Mang. (Diels): κρατούμενον codd.
12 ἀστενέστερον P καὶ post ὑφ’ οὗ seclusit Cumont
14 εὐταξίας H καὶ ante φθορᾶς om. l
15 ἀνωμολόγηται τοῦ ἀρίστου] ἀγαθοῦ ἀνωμολόγηται E παρὰ] περὶ M
16 τοῖς om. HP (v) τἀληθῆ H(P?)E: ἀληθῆ MU
17 θαυμάσαι δ’ ἄν τις— 107,5 συνηρτημένην ἀκολουθίαν om. E
18 θρυλλοῦντας U (v)
20 συνέστηκεν MU ἕνεκα codd.: ἕνεκεν v
21 τά ἄλλα UHP: τἄλλα M ἀναλυθήσεσθαι ex ἀναλυστήσεσθαι corr. M, ἀναληθήσεσθαι U 21.
22 δέον γάρ] δεόντως coni. Cumont: γάρ post πῶς transponendum censuit Mang.
22 εἴποι τις ἄν MU: εἰπόντες ἄν HP; εἰπέ τις ἄν Turn. ὑπερβάλλουσαι—εἶπεν (24) repet. U post θάνατον (106. 2)
24 μηδὲ UV: μηδ’ U, μὴν δὲ M

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