Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 43

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[43] εἰ δὲ κρείττονα δημιουργήσει, γενήσεται τότε κρείττων καὶ ὁ δημιουργός, ὥσθ’ ἡνίκα τὸν πρότερον κατεσκεύαζε καὶ τὴν τέχνην καὶ τὴν διάνοιαν ἦν ἀτελέστερος, ὅπερ οὐδὲ θέμις ὑπονοεῖν ἐστιν· ἴσος γὰρ αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ καὶ ὅμοιος ὁ θεός, μήτε ἄνεσιν πρὸς τὸ χεῖρον μήτ’ ἐπίτασιν πρὸς τὸ βέλτιον δεχόμενος. ἐπὶ δὲ τὰς τοιαύτας
ἀνωμαλίας ἄνθρωποι κεχωρήκασι, πρὸς ἑκάτερον τό τε εὖ καὶ τὸ χεῖρον πεφυκότες μεταβάλλειν, αὐξήσεσι καὶ προκοπαῖς καὶ βελτιώσεσι καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἐναντίοις εἰωθότες χρῆσθαι.

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

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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.) — 43 focus

[43] If, on the other hand, he is about to make a world better than the former one, then the maker too must be better than the maker of the former world, so that when he made the former world he was inferior both in his skill and in his intellect, which it is impious even to imagine, for God is at all times equal and similar to himself, being neither capable of any relaxation which can make him worse, nor of any extension which can make him better. Men, indeed, do admit of such inequalities in either direction, being naturally liable to alter either for the better or for the worse, and continually admitting of increase, and advance, and improvement, and everything contrary to these states;

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 43

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