# De aeternitate mundi 71

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 71. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/71

Οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ κἀκεῖνο σκοπεῖν ἄξιον, ὅτι πᾶν τὸ γενόμενον ἐν ἀρχῇ μὲν δεῖ πάντως ἀτελὲς εἶναι, χρόνου δὲ προϊόντος αὔξεσθαι μέχρι παντελοῦς τελειώσεως· ὥστε, εἰ γέγονεν ὁ κόσμος, ἦν μέν ποθ’, ἵνα κἀγὼ χρήσωμαι τοῖς ἡλικιῶν ὀνόμασι, κομιδῇ νήπιος, ἐπιβαίνων δ’ αὖθις ἐνιαυτῶν περιόδοις καὶ μήκεσι χρόνων ὀψὲ καὶ μόλις ἐτελειώθη· τοῦ γὰρ μακροβιωτάτου βραδεῖα ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἀκμή.

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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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