# De aeternitate mundi 142

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 142. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/142

οὐδὲν οὖν εἰς τὸ φθείρεσθαι τὸν κόσμον ἡ πλασθεῖσα τῷ λόγῳ μείωσις τῆς θαλάττης συνεργεῖ· φαίνεται γὰρ ὧν μὲν ἐξαναχωροῦσα, τὰ δ’ ἐπικλύζουσα. ἐχρῆν δὲ μὴ θάτερον τῶν γινομένων ἀλλὰ συνάμφω θεωροῦντας ἐπικρίνειν, ἐπεὶ κἀν τοῖς περὶ βίον ἀμφισβητήμασιν ὁ νόμιμος δικαστής, πρὶν [παρὰ] τῶν ἀντιδίκων ἀκοῦσαι, γνώμην οὐκ ἀποφανεῖται.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg029.local001/.