# De aeternitate mundi 88

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 88. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/88

καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ φλόξ· ἅμμα γὰρ τροφῆς ἐστι, μηδενὸς δὲ καταλειφθέντος, ἀτροφήσασα αὐτίκα ἀποσβεσθήσεται. τούτοις ἕπεται τὸ μηδ’ αὐγὴν ἀποτελεῖσθαι· καθ’ ἑαυτὴν γὰρ ὑπόστασιν οὐκ ἔχει, ῥεῖ δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν προτέρων, ἄνθρακος καὶ φλογός, ἀφ’ οὗ μὲν ἐλάττων, πολλὴ δ’ ἀπὸ φλογός· χεῖται γὰρ ἐπὶ μήκιστον· ἐκείνων δ’, ὡς ἐδείχθη, κατὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν οὐκ ὄντων, οὐδ’ ἂν αὐγὴ γένοιτο· καὶ γὰρ ἡ μεθημερινὴ πολλὴ καὶ βαθεῖα αὐγή, τὸν ὑπὸ γῆς ἡλίου δρόμον ἰόντος, εὐθὺς ἀφανίζεται νυκτὶ καὶ μάλιστα ἀσελήνῳ. οὐ τοίνυν ἐκπυροῦται ὁ κόσμος, ἀλλ’ ἔστιν ἄφθαρτος· εἰ δ’ ἐκπυρωθήσεται, ἕτερος οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο.

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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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