# De aeternitate mundi 22

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 22. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/22

φύσις, ἣν ἀδύνατον παθεῖν τι ἢ δρᾶσαι. καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ ὑπό τινος αἰτίας διαλυθήσεται τῶν ἐντὸς αὐτοῦ· πρῶτον μέν, ἐπειδὴ τοῦ ὅλου τὸ μέρος καὶ μεῖζον ἔσται καὶ κραταιότερον, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἀτοπώτατον· ὁ γὰρ κόσμος ἀνυπερβλήτῳ κράτει χρώμενος ἄγει τὰ πάντα μέρη, πρὸς μηδενὸς αὐτῶν ἀγόμενος· ἔπειτα δέ, ὅτι διττῶν οὐσῶν φθορᾶς αἰτιῶν, τῆς μὲν ἐντὸς τῆς δὲ ἐκτός, ἃ τὴν ἑτέραν οἷά τε ὑπομένειν. δεκτικὰ καὶ τῆς ἑτέρας ἐστὶ πάντως.

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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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