# Stobaei Hermetica 3.8

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/3.8

αὕτη οὖν ἡ διαφορὰ ἀθανάτου σώματος καὶ θνητοῦ, ὅτι τὸ μὲν ἀθάνατον ἐκ μιᾶς ὕλης συνέστηκε, τὸ δὲ οὔ· καὶ τὸ μὲν ποιεῖ, τὸ δὲ πάσχει. ⟨καὶ τὸ μὲν κρατεῖ, τὸ δὲ κρατεῖται·⟩ πᾶν γὰρ τὸ ἐνεργοῦν κρατεῖ, τὸ δὲ ἐνεργούμενον κρατεῖται. καὶ τὸ μὲν κρατοῦν, [ἐπιτακτικὸν καὶ] ἐλεύθερον ⟨ὄν⟩, ἄγει, τὸ δὲ ⟨κρατούμενον⟩, δοῦλον ⟨ὄν⟩, φέρεται.

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Anonymous, Stobaei Hermetica, ed. Walter Scott. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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