Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 36

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[36] ἐξασθενεῖ δὲ ἡ ἐπὶ μέρους ἀναγκαίως ἄγειν πρὸς ἀιδιότητα· ἢ γὰρ ἔνδεια ἢ φλογμὸς ἢ κρυμὸς ἢ μυρία ἄλλα τῶν εἰωθότων ἐπισυνίστασθαι
κατασκήψαντα διέσεισε καὶ διέλυσε τὸν συνέχοντα δεσμὸν καὶ τέλος κατέρρηξε· τοιοῦτον δ’ εἰ μηδὲν ἐφήδρευεν ἔξω, κἂν ὅσον ἐφ’ ἑαυτῇ πάντα μικρά τε αὖ καὶ μεγάλα ἀγήρω διεφύλαττεν.

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.) — 36 focus

[36] But particular nature is of necessity unable to conduct what it belongs to to eternity; for want, or heat, or cold, or innumerable other ordinary circumstances, when they affect particular things, shake them and dissolve the bond which previously held them together, and at last break them to pieces; but if nothing resembling any of these things were lying in wait outside, then in that case nature itself, as far as it is possible, would preserve everything both great and small free from old age.

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