Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 83

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[83] Ἔτι πρὸς τούτοις, ἐὰν ἐκπυρωθῇ, φασί, τὰ πάντα, τί κατ’ ἐκεῖνον ὁ θεὸς πράξει τὸν χρόνον; ἦ τὸ παράπαν οὐδέν; καὶ μήποτ’ εἰκότως· νυνὶ μὲν γὰρ ἕκαστα ἐφορᾷ καὶ πάντων οἷα γνήσιος πατὴρ ἐπιτροπεύει καί, εἰ δεῖ τἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν, ἡνιόχου καὶ κυβερνήτου τρόπον ἡνιοχεῖ καὶ πηδαλιουχεῖ τὰ σύμπαντα, ἡλίῳ τε καὶ σελήνῃ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις
πλάνησι καὶ ἀπλανέσιν ἔτι δ’ ἀέρι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις μέρεσι τοῦ κόσμου ¹² παριστάμενος καὶ συνδρῶν ὅσα πρὸς τὴν τοῦ ὅλου διαμονὴν καὶ τὴν κατ’ ὀρθὸν λόγον ἀνυπαίτιον διοίκησιν.

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.) — 83 focus

[83] Again, besides these arguments, if all things, say they, were destroyed by fire, then what will God have to do during all that time, except absolutely nothing? And is it not reasonable to say so? For at present, he overlooks and presides over everything, and regulates everything like a genuine father, and if one is to say the truth, he guides and directs everything, sitting as it were by the side of the sun, and moon, and the other planets, and fixed stars, and also by the air, and the other parts of the world, and he co-operates with them in everything which can conduce to the durability of the universe and to its blameless management, in accordance with right reason.

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De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 παρὰ ἰητροὺς U
2 ἐξαιρέτους E cod. r ἀποτελεσθεῖσαι Ε
3 τούτω M
4 ἀλλ’ οὔτε ME, ἀλλ’ οὔτ’ U: ἀλλ’ οὐκ HP (Turn.) alt. οὔτε MPE: οὔτ’ UH ν)
6 ἐξ ἑαυτῶν MUE: ἐξ αὐτῶν HP (ἐξ αὑτῶν v)
7 ἀφ’ ὧν E
8 πάντων] πάντα M (Bernays) ἀλλὰ P παντελῆ Η
10 τῆς τοῦ Διὸς σταλεῖσα Bernays (in commentario): τῇ τούτου ἰδιοσταλεῖσα E, τῆ του . . . . (spat, c,
4 litt.) σταλεῖσα M, τὸ τοῦ δι . . . (spat. c.
7 litt.) HP, . . . (spat. c.
10 litt.) σταλεῖσα U
11 τῷ] τὸ H
12 εἰς] ὡς E cod. r γίγνεσθαι Ε
13 μεταβολὴν ἂν ἐδύνατο Gomperz ἡδύνατο E
14 δὲ om. E cod. ἀθρόων MU: ἀθρόον HPE (v)
15 ἀναγκαῖον Reiter: ἀνάγκη codd.; ἀνάγκη τοῦτο ὑπονοεῖν ἀδύνατον Cumout
16 ἔτι πρὸς τούτοις—99,
6 θεός om. Ε φασί MU: φησι HP (Turn.)
17 πράξει
6 θεὸς transp. M (Bernays) ἡ] ἢ H (Turn.)
18 οἷα v (Turn.): οἷος codd.
20 πηδαληουχεῖ M ἡλίω τε M: τε om. UHP (v)
21 ἀπλανέσι M ἄλλοις add. Cumont

2.
1 τετραφάρμακος: cf. de confus. lingu. § 187. Galen. in Hippocr. de nat. hom. t. XV p.
32 (Kuehn).
9 sq. Chrysippi frg. 611 (Arnim). cf. Plut. de commun. notit. 31 p. 1075 b ἀλλὰ χρύσιππος καὶ Κλεάνθης, ἐμπεπληκότες ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν τῴ λόγῳ θεῶν οὐρανόν, τὴν γῆν, τὸν ἀέρα, τὴν θάλατταν, οὐδένα ἰῶν τοσούτων ἄφθαρτον οὐδ’ ἀίδιον ἀπολελοίπασι, πλὴν μόνου τοῦ Διός, εἰς ὃν πάντας καταναλίσκουσι τοὺς ἄλλους.

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