Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 95

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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[95] αἱ δὲ πίστεις προχειρόταται τοῖς συνεξετάζειν μὴ ἀποκνοῦσιν. οὐκοῦν ὁ κόσμος ἢ φυτόν, ὡς ἔοικεν,
ἢ ζῷον· ἀλλ’ εἴτε φυτόν ἐστιν εἴτε καὶ ζῷον, κατὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν φθαρεὶς οὐδέποτε αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ γενήσεται σπέρμα. μαρτυρεῖ δὲ τὰ παρ’ ἡμῖν, ὧν οὐδὲν οὐκ ἔλαττον οὐ μεῖζόν ποτε φθαρὲν εἰς σπέρματος ἀπεκρίθη γένεσιν.

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.) — 95 focus

[95] But the proofs are ready at hand to those who do not fear to join in the investigation. Therefore the world resembles either a plant or an animal. But whether it is a plant or whether it is an animal, still, if it be destroyed by conflagration, it will never be itself its own seed. And the circumstances which take place among ourselves bear witness that nothing, whether greater or less, when destroyed, has ever been separated in such a manner as to engender seed.

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