# De aeternitate mundi 40

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 40. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/40

τὸ μὲν δὴ πρότερον ἀλλότριον θεοῦ· πρὸς τάξιν γὰρ ἀταξίαν μεταβάλλειν δέον, οὐ πρὸς ἀταξίαν τάξιν· εἶτα δ’ ὅτι καὶ μετάνοιαν πάθος καὶ νόσημα δέξεται ψυχῆς· ἔδει γὰρ ἢ μὴ κοσμοποιῆσαι τὸ παράπαν ἢ κρίνοντα πρέπον αὑτῷ τὸ ἔργον χαίρειν τῷ γενομένῳ.

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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/.