Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 99

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[99] πρὸς
δὴ τί ταῦτα λέγω; ὅτι κατὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν σπέρμα μόνον ὑπολειφθήσεται, τροφῆς μὴ ὑπαρχούσης, ἁπάντων ὅσα τρέφειν ἔμελλεν εἰς πῦρ ἀναλυθέντων, ὥσθ’ ὁ κατὰ τὴν παλιγγενεσίαν ἀποτελούμενος κόσμος χωλὴν καὶ ἀτελῆ γένεσιν ἕξει, τοῦ μάλιστα πρὸς τελείωσιν συνεργοῦντος, ᾧ καθάπερ βάκτρῳ τινὶ τὴν σπερματικὴν ἀρχὴν ἐφιδρύεσθαι συμβέβηκεν,
ἐφθαρμένου. τοῦτο δ’ ἦν ἄτοπον ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐλεγχόμενον τῆς ἐναργείας.

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.) — 99 focus

[99] Why then do I say this? Because in the case of such a conflagration as that of which I have been speaking, the seed alone will be left, there being no nutriment remaining, since everything which was to have supplied nutriment will have been resolved into fire; so that the world, which would be to be formed, according to the principle of regeneration, will have a lame and imperfect form and character, since that which is chiefly required to co-operate towards its perfection, on which, as on a staff, the seminal origin ought to, and naturally does, lean, is destroyed; but this would be absurd, as is shown, and made manifest from the clearest evidence.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 99

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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