Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 41

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[41] τὸ δὲ δεύτερον ἄξιον οὐ βραχείας ἐρεύνης. εἰ γὰρ ἕτερον ἀντὶ τοῦ νῦν ὄντος κατασκευάσει, πάντως ὁ γενόμενος ἢ χείρων ἢ ὅμοιος ἢ κρείττων ἀποτελεσθήσεται·
ὧν ἕκαστον ἐπίληπτον. εἰ μὲν γὰρ χείρων ὁ κόσμος, χείρων καὶ ὁ δημιουργός. ἀμώμητα δὲ καὶ ἀνεξέλεγκτα καὶ ἀνεπανόρθωτα τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τελειοτάτῃ τέχνῃ καὶ ἐπιστήμῃ δημιουργηθέντα·

„οὐδὲ“ γὰρ „γυνὴ“ φασί „τοσσόνδε νόου ἐπιδεύεται ἐσθλοῦ,

ὥστε χερείον’ ἑλέσθαι ἀμεινοτέρων παρεόντων.“

ἐμπρεπὲς δὲ θεῷ τὰ ἄμορφα μορφοῦν καὶ τοῖς αἰσχίστοις ¹² περιτιθέναι θαυμαστὰ κάλλη.

De Aeternitate Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 41 focus

[41] But the second reason deserves no superficial examination; for if he were intending to make another world instead of that which exists at present, then of necessity this second world that would be made, in that case, would be either worse than, or similar to, or better than the first; everyone of which ideas is inadmissible; for if the new world is to be worse than the former, then the maker must be also worse: but all the works of God are without blemish, beyond all reproach and wholly faultless, inasmuch as they are wrought with the most consummate skill and knowledge; for as the proverb says; — "For e’en a woman’s wisdom’s not so coarse As to despise the good and choose the worse." But it is consistent with the character of, and becoming to God to give form to what is shapeless, and to invest what is most ugly with admirable beauty.

Notes on the current edition

De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 οὐδὲν γάρ ἦν om. UE αὐτό Plato: αὐτὸς codd. (Turn. Mang.) γὰρ om. L (Turn.) φθίσιν] φύσιν Ε παρέχον Plato: παρέχων codd. (Turn. Mang.)
2 πάντ’ M: πάντα UHPE πάσχον Plato: πάσχων codd. (Turn. Mang.) γέγονεν ἀρίστης E
3 αὐτὸ HPE, ex αὐτῶ ut videtur corr. Μ: αὐτὸς U ὂν] ἦν HP
4 ἄλλων add. Mang. (ex Platone): om. codd.
6 ἠκριβωμένων καὶ πάνυ ἀνεξελέγκτων M
7 ἕνεκε M φθερεῖ Gomperz (sic etiam E cod. b): φθείρει codd.
9 μεταβαλεῖν coni. Diels
11 ἢ μὴ Ε (cod. a): ἢ om. MUHP
12 αὐτῶ codd. ἄξιον οὐ] ἄξιόν που Gumont
13 καὶ ἕτερον U
14 ὁ γινόμενος coni. Buecheler ἢ κρείττων ἢ ὅμοιος transp. E
17 ante τελειοτάτῃ add. τὰ M; ἅτε τελειοτάτῃ Beruays 18.
19 οὐδὲ—ἀμεινοτέρων παρεόντων om. Ε
18 τοσσόνδε M: τοσόνδε UHP ἐπιδεύεται UP: ἐπιτηδεύεται H, ἐπιλείπεται M
19 χερείον᾿ U (coni. Meineke): χέρειον MHP (v) παρεόντων add. Mang. (Bergk)
20 ἐμπρεπὲς MH (et P ut vid.): εὐπρεπὲς UE τῶ θεῶ U αἰσχί(στοις) in ras. M

2.
5 sqq. Arist. frg.
21 (ed. Rose, Lips. 1886).
10 cf. Arist. ap. Cic. Acad. pr. II 119 (frg.
22 Rose). 18.
19 versus ignoti poetae (Bergk, Poetae lyr, gr. II4 73). emendandus hinc Philodem. Rhet. p. 324 (Sudh.). cf. Theogn. v. 21.

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