# De aeternitate mundi 61

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 61. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/61

τί δ’ ἐμποδὼν ἦν ἀνθρώπους καθάπερ φασὶ πρότερον καὶ νῦν βλαστάνειν; οὕτως καὶ ἡ γῆ γεγήρακεν, ὡς διὰ χρόνου μῆκος ἐστειρῶσθαι δοκεῖν; ἀλλ’ ἐν ὁμοίῳ μένει νεάζουσα ἀεί, διότι τετάρτη μοῖρα τοῦ παντός ἐστι καὶ ἕνεκα τῆς τοῦ ὅλου διαμονῆς ὀφείλει μὴ φθίνειν, ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰ ἀδελφὰ στοιχεῖα αὐτῆς ὕδωρ ἀήρ τε καὶ πῦρ ἀγήρω διατελεῖ.

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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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