Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 3

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[3] Ἄξιον οὖν τοὺς ζητοῦντας εἰ ἄφθαρτος ὁ κόσμος, ἐπειδὴ καὶ „φθορὰ“ καὶ „κόσμος“ τῶν πολλαχῶς λεγομένων ἐστὶν ἑκάτερον, πρῶτον ἐρευνῆσαι
περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων, ἵνα καθ’ ὃ σημαινόμενον νυνὶ [καὶ] τέτακται διαγνῶμεν· ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὅσα δηλοῦται πάντα καταριθμητέον, ἀλλ’ ὅσα πρὸς τὴν παροῦσαν διδασκαλίαν χρήσιμα.

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.) — 3 focus

[3] It is right, therefore, for those who are investigating the question whether the world is perishable, since the two words, "corruption," and "the world," will be in continual use, first of all to investigate the precise meaning of both expressions, in order that we may know what is now signified, and what has been ordained. And we must enumerate, not indeed everything which is signified by those words, but so much as is useful for the purpose of our present instruction.

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