# De aeternitate mundi 82

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 82. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/82

ἄπαγε, δεήσει γὰρ πάλιν εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν γίνεσθαι τὴν φθορὰν παραδέχεσθαι. τοῦ χάριν; ὅτι εἰ μὲν ἕκαστον ἐν μέρει τῶν στοιχείων ἐφθείρετο, μεταβολὴν ἐδύνατο τὴν εἰς ἕτερον δέχεσθαι, πάντων δὲ συλλήβδην ἀθρόων κατὰ σύγχυσιν ἀναιρουμένων, ἀναγκαῖον ὑπονοεῖν τὸ ἀδύνατον.

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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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