Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 84

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[84] πάντων δ’ ἀναιρεθέντων, ὑπ’ ἀργίας καὶ ἀπραξίας p. 504 M. δεινῆς ἀβιώτῳ βίῳ χρήσεται· οὗ τί γένοιτ’ ἂν ἀτοπώτερον; ὀκνῶ λέγειν, ὃ μηδὲ θέμις ὑπονοεῖν, ὅτι ἀκολουθήσει θεῷ θάνατος, εἴ
γε καὶ ἠρεμία· τὸ γὰρ ἀεικίνητον ἐὰν ἀνέλῃς ψυχῆς, καὶ αὐτὴν πάντως συνανελεῖς· ψυχὴ δὲ τοῦ κόσμου· κατὰ τοὺς ἀντιδοξοῦντας ὁ θεός.

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.) — 84 focus

[84] But if everything is destroyed, then he will have an existence which will be rendered absolutely miserable, by inactivity and irremediable want of employment; than which what idea can be more absurd? I hesitate to add, what it would be impious to say, that death will ensue to God if absolute inactivity falls to his lot; for if you take away the perpetual motion of the soul, then you will beyond all question also destroy the soul itself. And the soul of the world, in the opinion of those who maintain the opposite doctrine, is God.

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