Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 59

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[59] τὸ δὲ γεννηθῆναί τινας οἴεσθαι τελείους ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἠγνοηκότων ἐστὶ νόμους φύσεως, θεσμοὺς ἀκινήτους. αἱ μὲν γὰρ ἡμέτεραι γνῶμαι προσαναματτόμεναι τὸ πλημμελὲς ἐκ τοῦ συνεζευγμένου θνητοῦ τροπὰς
καὶ μεταβολὰς εἰκότως ἐνδέχονται, ἄτρεπτα δὲ τὰ τῆς τῶν ὅλων ἐστὶ φύσεως, ἅτε πάντων ἐπικρατούσης καὶ διὰ βεβαιότητα τῶν ἅπαξ γνωσθέντων τοὺς ἐξ ἀρχῆς παγέντας ὅρους ἀκινήτους διαφυλαττούσης.

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.) — 59 focus

[59] but to fancy that any one has ever been born absolutely perfect is the part of those who are ignorant of the laws of nature, which are unchangeable ordinances. For our minds, being vitiated by the contagion of the mortal body which is united to them, are very naturally liable to changes and alterations, but the works of the nature of the universe are unalterable, since she has dominion over all things, and by means of the stability of whatever desires she has once established she preserves the definitions which have been originally fixed in an unchangeable state.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 59

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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