Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 116

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[116] καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ κατ’ ἀλλοίωσιν φθείρεσθαι νομιστέον· ἰσοκρατὴς γὰρ ἡ τῶν στοιχείων μεταβολή,
τὸ δ’ ἰσοκρατὲς ἀκλινοῦς βεβαιότητος καὶ ἀσαλεύτου μονῆς αἴτιον. ἅτε μήτε πλεονεκτοῦν μήτε πλεονεκτούμενον· ὥσθ’ ἡ ἀντίδοσις καὶ ἡ ἀντέκτισις τῶν δυνάμεων ἀναλογίας ἐξισουμένη κανόσιν ὑγιείας καὶ ἀτελευτήτου σωτηρίας δημιουργός. ἐξ ὧν ἀίδιος ὁ κόσμος ἀποδείκνυται.

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.) — 116 focus

[116] Once more: we must not imagine that the world is destroyed by alteration, for the change of any elements is equipollent, and that which is equipollent is the cause of unvarying steadiness, and of untroubled durability, inasmuch as it neither seeks any advantage itself, and is not subject to the inroads of other things which seek advantages at its expense; so that this retribution and compensation of these powers is equalized by the rules of proportion, being the produce of health and endless preservation, by all which considerations the world is demonstrated to be eternal.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 116

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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