Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 51

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[51] οὐκοῦν ἀνάγκη λέγειν ὅτι ὁ μὲν κόσμος οὐκ ἔφθαρται ὁ τὸ σῶμα ἀφαιρεθείς, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ ὁ ἀποκοπεὶς τὸν πόδα Δίων, ἀλλ’ ἡ τοῦ κόσμου ψυχή, ὥσπερ Θέων ὁ
μηδὲν παθών. ὁ μὲν γὰρ κόσμος ἐπ’ ἐλάττονα οὐσίαν ἀνέδραμεν, ἀφαιρεθέντος αὐτῷ τοῦ σωματοειδοῦς, ἐφθάρη δ’ ἡ ψυχὴ διὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι δύο ἰδίως ποιὰ εἶναι περὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ὑποκείμενον. ἔκθεσμον δὲ τὸ λέγειν φθείρεσθαι τὴν πρόνοιαν· ἀφθάρτου δὲ ὑπαρχούσης, ἀνάγκη καὶ τὸν κόσμον ἄφθαρτον εἶναι.

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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.) — 51 focus

[51] therefore it is necessary to say that the world has not been destroyed though its body has been taken away, just as Dion was not destroyed by having his foot cut off, but the soul of the world it is that has perished, like Theon, who suffered no artificial mutilation, for the world also receded to a lesser substance when all of it that resembled a body was taken away. And the soul was destroyed because there could not be two specific differences affecting the same subject. But it is impiety to say that providence perishes, and since it is imperishable it follows of necessity that the world also must be imperishable.

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De aeternitate mundi

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1 τοῦ ante ἑτέρου om. L (Turn.)
2 κἄπειτα codd.: κἄπειτ’ Cumont
3 ζητημένου M
4 τὸν ante Θέωνα om. U 4.5 ἐστὶ μᾶλλον transp. U
5 οὐδὲν om. M
6 ἀνήρπασται] ἔφθαρται coni. Mang., πεπήρωται coni. Wendl, διέρφθαρται Μ: ἔφθαρται UHP (v)
7 ὁ ἐκτμηθεὶς MU: οὐ τμηθεὶς H(P) ; οὑκτμηθεὶς Cumont
8 ἰδίως ποιὰ Cumont: εἰδοποιοὶ codd. (ἰδίως ποιοὶ Arnim) περὶ ΜU: ἐπὶ HP (v) τὸ αὐτὸ ὑποκείμενον Bernays (cf. l. 23): τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὑποκειμένου codd.
9 δύνατ’ HP: δύναται U, δύνανται M (δύναντ᾿ v)
10 διεφθάρθαι M: ἐφθάρθαι UHP (v)
11 ὑπ’ ἄλλην M αὐτῶν codd.
14 αὐτὴν MU: τὴν αὐτὴν ΗΡ (v)
15 δὲ M τὸ μὲν Cumont: ὁ μὲν codd.
16 τὸ δὲ Cumout: ὁ δὲ codd.
18 οὕτως MU: οὕτω HP ὅσον conicio, ὅσον coni. Cumont αὐτοῦ] αὐτῶ U 20.
21 ὁ μηδὲν παθὼν MHP: μηδέν τι παθών U
22 αὐτῷ] αὐτοῦ P
23 ἰδίως ποιὰ Cumont: εἰδοποιοὺς codd.
24 δὲ MHP: δ’ U

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11 Aesch. frsm. 139,4.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 51

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