Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 143

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[143] 27 Καὶ μὴν ὁ τρίτος λόγος ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ διελέγχεται, μὴ ὑγιῶς ἐρωτηθεὶς ἀπὸ τῆς εὐθὺς ἐν ἀρχῇ φάσεως. οὐ γὰρ δήπουθεν οὗ πάντα
τὰ μέρη φθείρεται φθαρτόν ἐστιν ἐκεῖνο, ἀλλ’ οὗ πάντα τὰ μέρη ἅμα ¹² καὶ ἐν ταὐτῷ καὶ ἀθρόα κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἄκρον ἀποκοπείς τις δάκτυλον ζῆν οὐ κεκώλυται, εἰ δὲ τὴν κοινωνίαν τῶν μερῶν καὶ μελῶν πᾶσαν, αὐτίκα τελευτήσει.

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

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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.) — 143 focus

And as for the third argument, it is convicted by itself, as being derived only from an unsound system of questioning proceeding from the assertions originally made; for in truth it does not necessarily follow that a thing, all the parts of which are liable to corruption, is likewise perishable itself; but this is only inevitably true of that thing of which all the parts are perishable when taken collectively and together in the same place and at the same time, since in the case of a person who has the tip of his finger cut off, he is not disabled from living, but if he had the whole collection of all his parts and limbs cut off at once, he would die immediately.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 οὐ] ἦ Turn. ἡ Turn. προσεδόκησαν Η
2 ἐπέβη M συνεζεύγχθη M
3 σύρρυσιν MU: σύρρησιν HP, σύρρευσιν Ε ἡ δ’ ἡνωμένη E (Cumont) διεζεύγχθη M
5 ὑπερσχούσης MU: ὑπερεχούσης HPE (v) ; ὑπερχεούσης coni. Scaliger ἠφανίσθη U πόλεις ποθήσας P, πολ .... ποθήσας (spat. 4—5 litt.) H
7 βούρράν M ἑλίκειαν MU: ἕλκειαν H ἐλύνειαν P, ἑλίκην Ε
8 τείχεσιν—γενομένας (9) om. Ε ἢ HP: ἢ MU ἔμελλεν M περίβρυα ML (Turn.) μυρία om. Turn. φύσειν M: φύσιν HP (Turn.), φησίν U
9 πολλῇ] πολὺ M
10 Ἀτλαντὶς] ἄντλα τις H ἀσίης M
12 τῆς om. Turn. θαλάσσης Η (v)
13 πλωτῶν P, πλωτῷ H
14 τῇς θαλάττης E: MUHP θαλάττῃ MUHP (v)
15 ὧν μὲν] τῶν μέν coni. Diels (Cumont)
17 βίων ἀμφισαντήμασιν (sic) M νόμιμος] νόμος Ε πρὶν παρὰ cofid. (etiam M) ; παρὰ seclusit Buecheler; πρὶν καὶ Diels, πρὶν ἑκατέρου coni. Usener
20 οὖ] οὐ H 20.21 πάντα Ε: πάντα MUHP (v)
21 οὐ] οὐ H τὰ μέρη πάντα conicio; καὶ ἄμα pro ἅμα καὶ coni. Cumont

2. 7.
8 Versus ignoti poetae: Meineke, Anal. Alex. p. 46. non tres urbes demersas esse, ut dicit Philo, sed duas Buram et Helicen constat: cf. Polyb. II 41, 7. Amm. Marcell. XVII 7, 13. Sen. Nat. Quaest. VI 23, 4. VII 5, 3. 4. —12 Plat. Tim.
24 e.
25 c d.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 143

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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