Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 29

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[29] ἄνθρωποι γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν τεττάρων στοιχείων, ἃ δὴ ὅλα
τοῦ παντός ἐστιν οὐρανοῦ, γῆς, ὕδατος, ἀέρος τε καὶ πυρός, βραχέα τὰ μέρη δανεισάμενοι συνεκράθημεν· τὰ δ’ ἀνακραθέντα τῆς κατὰ φύσιν θέσεως ἐστέρηται, θερμότητος μὲν τῆς ἀνωφοίτου κατω σθείσης, τῆς δὲ γεώδους καὶ βάρος ἐχούσης οὐσίας ἐπελαφρισθείσης καὶ τὸν ἄνω τόπον ἀντιλαβούσης,

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.) — 29 focus

[29] for men are composed of the four elements which together make up the whole of the universe, the heaven, the earth, the air, and fire, borrowing a few parts of each in a manner at first sight hardly consistent with nature. But the things which are thus combined together are necessarily deprived of a motion in accordance with nature; for instance, warmth is deprived of its upward motion, and coldness of its downward tendency, the earthy and somewhat weighty substance being lightened and assuming the higher place, which the most earth-like of our own parts, the head, has obtained in us.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 29

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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