Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 23

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[23] σημεῖον δέ· βοῦς καὶ ἵππος καὶ ἄνθρωπος καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια
ζῷα, διότι πέφυκεν ἀναιρεῖσθαι ὑπὸ σιδήρου, καὶ νόσῳ τελευτήσει· χαλεπὸν γὰρ μᾶλλον δὲ ἀδύνατον εὑρεῖν, ὅ τι τὴν ἔξωθεν αἰτίαν πεφυκὸς ὑπομένειν τῆς φθορᾶς ἄδεκτον ἔσται p. 497,8 M. κατὰ τὸ παντελὲς τῆς ἔνδοθεν.

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.) — 23 focus

[23] and a proof of this may be found in oxen, and horses, and men, and other animals of similar kinds, because it is their nature to be destroyed by the sword, or to be liable to die by disease; for it is difficult, or I might rather say impossible, to find anything which, being by nature at the mercy of some external cause perceptible by the intellect, will still not be liable to corruption ... by itself when the world was not.

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