Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 71

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[71] Οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ κἀκεῖνο σκοπεῖν ἄξιον, ὅτι πᾶν τὸ γενόμενον ἐν ἀρχῇ μὲν δεῖ πάντως ἀτελὲς εἶναι, χρόνου δὲ προϊόντος αὔξεσθαι μέχρι
παντελοῦς τελειώσεως· ὥστε, εἰ γέγονεν ὁ κόσμος, ἦν μέν ποθ’, ἵνα κἀγὼ χρήσωμαι τοῖς ἡλικιῶν ὀνόμασι, κομιδῇ νήπιος, ἐπιβαίνων δ’ αὖθις ἐνιαυτῶν περιόδοις καὶ μήκεσι χρόνων ὀψὲ καὶ μόλις ἐτελειώθη· τοῦ γὰρ μακροβιωτάτου βραδεῖα ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἀκμή.

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.) — 71 focus

[71] Nevertheless, this point also is worthy of one consideration: that everything which is born must by all means at the beginning be imperfect, but as time advances he must increase till he arrives at complete perfection, so that if the world was born it was at one time (that I may use the expressions appropriate to the ages of men) a mere infant, and subsequently increasing in periods of years and lapse of time, it at last and with great difficulty arrived at perfection, for of necessity the period at which that which of all things has the longest existence must be late.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 71

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