Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 146

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[146] εἰ δὲ δὴ καὶ λεκτέον τὰς τέχνας ἰσήλικας ἀνθρώπων γένει, μεθ’ ἱστορίας φυσικῆς ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀπερισκέπτως καὶ ῥᾳθύμως λεκτέον. ἡ δ’ ἱστορία τίς; φθοραὶ τῶν κατὰ γῆν, οὐκ ἀθρόων ἁπάντων ἀλλὰ τῶν πλείστων, δυσὶ ταῖς μεγίσταις αἰτίαις ἀνατίθενται, πυρὸς καὶ ὕδατος ἀλέκτοις φοραῖς· κατασκήπτειν δ’ ἑκατέραν ἐν μέρει
φασὶν ἐν πάνυ μακραῖς ἐνιαυτῶν περιόδοις.

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.) — 146 focus

[146] But if we must speak of the arts as co-eval with the race of mankind, then we must speak, drawing our arguments from natural history, and not inconsiderately or carelessly. And what is this history? The destruction of the things on the earth, not all together, but of the greatest number of them, is attributed to two principal causes, the indescribable violence and power of fire and water. And they say that each of these elements attacks them in its turn, after very long periods of revolving years.

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