Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 40

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[40] τὸ μὲν δὴ πρότερον ἀλλότριον θεοῦ· πρὸς τάξιν γὰρ ἀταξίαν μεταβάλλειν δέον,
οὐ πρὸς ἀταξίαν τάξιν· εἶτα δ’ ὅτι καὶ μετάνοιαν πάθος καὶ νόσημα δέξεται ψυχῆς· ἔδει γὰρ ἢ μὴ κοσμοποιῆσαι τὸ παράπαν ἢ κρίνοντα πρέπον αὑτῷ τὸ ἔργον χαίρειν τῷ γενομένῳ.

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.) — 40 focus

[40] now the former idea is inconsistent with the character of God; for it is proper to change disorder into order, and not order into disorder; in the second place, it is so because it would give rise to repentance, which is an affliction and a disease of the soul. For he ought either never to have created a world at all, or else, if he judged that it was a fitting employment for him, he ought to have been pleased with it after it was made.

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