# De aeternitate mundi 2

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/2

εἰ μὲν οὖν ἐνασκηθέντες τοῖς φρονήσεως καὶ σωφροσύνης καὶ πάσης ἀρετῆς δόγμασιν ἀπερρυψάμεθα τὰς ἐκ παθῶν καὶ νοσημάτων κηλῖδας, οὐκ ἂν ἴσως ἀπηξίωσεν ὁ θεὸς ἄκρως κεκαθαρμέναις καὶ φαιδρυναμέναις αὐγοειδῶς ψυχαῖς ἐπιστήμην τῶν οὐρανίων ἢ δι’ ὀνειράτων ἢ διὰ χρησμῶν ἢ διὰ σημείων ἢ τεράτων ὑφηγεῖσθαι· ἐπεὶ δὲ τοὺς ἀφροσύνης καὶ ἀδικίας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κακιῶν ἀναμαξάμενοι [στοχασμοὺς καὶ] τύπους δυσεκπλύτους ἔχομεν, ἀγαπᾶν χρή, κἂν εἰκόσι στοχασμοῖς δι’ αὑτῶν μίμημά τι τῆς ἀληθείας ἀνευρίσκωμεν.

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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/.