# De aeternitate mundi 106

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 106. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/106

Ἔτι τοίνυν κἀκεῖνό μοι δοκεῖ μὴ ἀπὸ σκοποῦ τοῖς ἰχνηλατοῦσι τἀληθὲς εἰρῆσθαι· φθειρόμενος ὁ κόσμος ἤτοι ὑπό τινος ἑτέρας φθαρήσεται αἰτίας ἢ ὑπὸ θεοῦ. ὑπ’ ἄλλου μὲν οὐδενὸς τὸ παράπαν δέξεται διάλυσιν· οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστιν ὃ μὴ περιέχει· τὸ δὲ περιεχόμενον καὶ κατακρατούμενον ἀσθενέστερον δήπου τοῦ περιέχοντος, ὑφ’ οὗ καὶ κατακρατεῖται. ὑπὸ δὲ θεοῦ φθείρεσθαι λέγειν αὐτὸν πάντων ἀνοσιώτατον· ὁ γὰρ θεὸς οὐκ ἀταξίας καὶ ἀκοσμίας καὶ φθορᾶς ἀλλὰ τάξεως καὶ εὐκοσμίας καὶ ζωῆς καὶ παντὸς αἴτιος ἀνωμολόγηται τοῦ ἀρίστου παρὰ τοῖς τἀληθῆ δοξάζουσι.

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Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, Leopold Cohn. 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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