# De aeternitate mundi 37

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 37. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/37

ἀναγκαῖον οὖν καὶ τὴν τοῦ κόσμου φύσιν γλίχεσθαι τῆς τοῦ ὅλου διαμονῆς· οὐ γὰρ δὴ τῶν ἐπὶ μέρους ἐστὶ χείρων, ὡς ἀποδιδράσκουσα καὶ λιποτακτοῦσα νόσον ἀνθ’ ὑγιείας καὶ φθορὰν ἀντὶ σωτηρίας παντελοῦς ἐπιχειρεῖν τεχνάζειν, ἐπειδὴ "πασάων ὑπὲρ ἥ γε κάρη ἔχει ἠδὲ μέτωπα, ῥεῖά τ’ ἀριγνώτη πέλεται, καλαὶ δέ τε πᾶσαι.“ ἀλλ’ εἰ τοῦτ’ ἀληθές ἐστι, φθορὰν ὁ κόσμος οὐ δέξεται. διὰ τί; ὅτι ἡ συνέχουσα φύσις αὐτὸν ἀήττητός ἐστι κατὰ πολλὴν ἰσχύος ῥώμην, τῶν ἄλλων ὅσα βλάπτειν ἔμελλεν ἁπαξαπάντων ἐπικρατοῦσα.

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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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