Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 90

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[90] εὑρεσιλογούντων δὲ πλάσματα ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ καὶ κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας τεχναζόντων. τί δήποτε; ὅτι τὸν κόσμον ἐκπυρωθέντα
γενέσθαι μὲν ἄνθρακι παραπλήσιον ἀμήχανον, ὡς δέδεικται, γεώδους πολλῆς ἂν ὑπολειφθείσης οὐσίας, ᾗ δεήσει τὸ πῦρ ἐλλοχᾶν, ἴσως δ’ οὐδ’ ἐκπυρώσεως τότε κρατούσης, εἴ γε μένει τὸ στοιχείων βαρύτατον καὶ δυσαναλωτότατον ἔτι, γῆ μὴ διαλυθεῖσα, μεταβάλλειν δὲ ἢ εἰς φλόγα ἢ ¹² εἰς αὐγὴν ἀναγκαῖον, εἰς μὲν φλόγα, ὡς ᾤετο Κλεάνθης, εἰς δ’ αὐγήν, ὡς ὁ Χρύσιππος.

De Aeternitate Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 90 focus

[90] But all these ideas are the invention of quibblers, who employ all their artifices in opposition to the truth. Why so? Because it is impossible, as has been proved already, that the world, after it has been destroyed by conflagration, should become similar to coal, inasmuch as there is a vast quantity of earthy substance left in which the fire must of necessity lie in ambush. And perhaps too the conflagration could not prevail in every quarter, if the heaviest and most invincible of the elements, namely the earth, still remains, without being dissolved; but it must of necessity change, either into flame or into light: into flame, as Cleanthes thought; into light, as Chrysippus conceived.

Notes on the current edition

De aeternitate mundi

1.
1 ἀναλύεσθαι Ε
2 ἅμμα PE, ἄμμα U: ἄμα ΜΗ (v) τροφῆς codd.: τροφή Turn., τροφῇ Mang. δὲ] γὰρ M
3 ἀτροφήσασα MUE: ἀτροφήσας HP; ἀτροφήσασ᾿ Cumont, ἀτροφήσει Turn. ἕπεται] ἐπέσται U
4 ῥεῖ δὲ MU: ῥεῖ δ’ HPE
5 ἀφ’ οὖ—φλογός (6) om. M ἐλάττων U2HP: ἔλαττον U1E πολλὴ] πολὺ E
6 χεῖται γὰρ ἐπὶ μήκιστον om. E
7 καὶ γὰρ—101,
13 καὶ αὐγή φλογί om. E ἡ μεθημερινὴ] ἡμερινὴ U
8 πολλὴ καὶ] πολληκὴ M
9 μάλιστα MU: μάλιστ’ HP
11 τινες] τινος M μακροῦ] πολλοῦ M (Bernays)
12 θανατῶντι] θανόντι L ν)
13 εὐτρεπίζεσθαι M (Bernays) οὐδέν MU: οὐδ’ HP (Turn.) ὄφελος ἣν transp. U
14 γενέσεως] γενήσεως M
15 μετὰ] κατὰ coni. Mang.
16 μέλλει ΗΡ πόση ΜΗ
18 μείνῃ codd.: μένῃ v (Turn.)
19 εὑρεσιλογούντων UP: εὑρησιλογούντων MH
21 ἀμήχανον] ἀδύνατον U
22 ἄν ὑπολειφθείσης Buecheler: ἀνθυπολειφθείσης codd. (ἀνθ᾿ ὑπολειφθείσης P) ; ἄν ἀνθυπολειφθείσης οὐσίας] οὐσίους H οὐδ’ U (coni. Buecheler): οὐκ MHP
23 στοιχείων MU: στοιχεῖον HP
24 δυσαναλωτότατον MU: δυσαναλώτατον HP (v) μεταβάλλ (sic) M

2.
24 sqq. Cleanthis frg. 711, Chrysippi frg. 611 (Arnim).

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 90

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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