# De aeternitate mundi 21

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 21. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/21

εἰ δὴ φθείρεται καὶ κόσμος, ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἤτοι ὑπό τινος τῶν ἐκτὸς ἢ πρός τινος τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ διαφθαρήσεται δυνάμεων· ἀμήχανον δ’ ἑκάτερον· ἐκτὸς μὲν γὰρ οὐδέν ἐστι τοῦ κόσμου, πάντων εἰς τὴν συμπλήρωσιν αὐτοῦ συνερανισθέντων· οὕτως γὰρ εἷς τε ἔσται καὶ ὅλος καὶ ἀγήρως, εἷς μὲν διὰ τὸ ἀπολειφθέντων τινῶν ἕτερον ἂν τῷ νῦν ὄντι γενέσθαι ὅμοιον, ὅλος δὲ ἕνεκα τοῦ σύμπασαν τὴν οὐσίαν εἰς αὐτὸν ἐξανηλῶσθαι, ἀγήρως δὲ καὶ ἄνοσος, ἐπειδὴ τὰ νόσοις καὶ γήρᾳ σώματα ἁλωτὰ θερμότησι καὶ ψύξεσι καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις ἐναντιότησι προσεμπιπτούσαις ἔξωθεν ἰσχυρῶς ἀνατρέπεται, ὧν οὐδεμία δύναμις ἀποδρᾶσα κυκλοῦται καὶ ἐπιτίθεται, πασῶν, μηδενὸς ἀποστατοῦντος μέρους, ὁλοκλήρων ἐγκατειλημμένων εἴσω. εἰ δ’ ἄρα τί ἐστιν ἐκτός, πάντως ἂν εἴη κενόν, ἡ ἀπαθὴς

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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/.