# De aeternitate mundi 43

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 43. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/43

εἰ δὲ κρείττονα δημιουργήσει, γενήσεται τότε κρείττων καὶ ὁ δημιουργός, ὥσθ’ ἡνίκα τὸν πρότερον κατεσκεύαζε καὶ τὴν τέχνην καὶ τὴν διάνοιαν ἦν ἀτελέστερος, ὅπερ οὐδὲ θέμις ὑπονοεῖν ἐστιν· ἴσος γὰρ αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ καὶ ὅμοιος ὁ θεός, μήτε ἄνεσιν πρὸς τὸ χεῖρον μήτ’ ἐπίτασιν πρὸς τὸ βέλτιον δεχόμενος. ἐπὶ δὲ τὰς τοιαύτας ἀνωμαλίας ἄνθρωποι κεχωρήκασι, πρὸς ἑκάτερον τό τε εὖ καὶ τὸ χεῖρον πεφυκότες μεταβάλλειν, αὐξήσεσι καὶ προκοπαῖς καὶ βελτιώσεσι καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἐναντίοις εἰωθότες χρῆσθαι.

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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/.