Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 60

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[60] εἴπερ οὖν ἁρμόττον ἐνόμιζεν ἀποτίκτεσθαι τελείους, καὶ νῦν ἂν ἐτελειογονεῖτο ἄνθρωπος, μὴ βρέφος, μὴ παῖς, μὴ μειράκιον γινόμενος, ἀλλ’ ἀνὴρ εὐθὺς
ὤν, ἴσως δὲ καὶ πρὸς ἅπαν ἀγήρως καὶ ἀθάνατος· ᾧ γὰρ μὴ αὔξησις, μηδὲ μείωσις πρόσεστιν· αἱ μὲν γὰρ ἄχρι τῆς ἀνδρὸς ἡλικίας μεταβολαὶ κατ’ αὔξησιν, αἱ δ’ ἀπὸ ταύτης ἄχρι γήρως καὶ τελευτῆς κατὰ μείωσιν συνίστανται· τῷ δὲ μὴ κοινωνοῦντι τῶν προτέρων καὶ τὰς ἑπομένας εὔλογον μὴ ἐπιγίγνεσθαι.

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.) — 60 focus

[60] If then she had originally thought it proper that men should be born perfect, now also man would still be born in a perfect state, without ever being an infant, or a boy, or a youth, but he would at once be a man, and perhaps he would be altogether exempt from old age and from death, for that thing which has no increase must also of necessity be exempt from all diminution, for up to the prime of a man’s life all his changes tend towards increase, but from that period up to old age and death they exist with a gradual diminution; and it is natural to suppose that he who has no share in the former must also be free from the subsequent changes.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 60

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