On the Eternity of the World
Philo of Alexandria
Section 6
About this work
A philosophical examination of arguments about whether the world is eternal or subject to destruction. The work is transmitted under Philo’s name, but its attribution is disputed.
- Author
- Philo of Alexandria
- Date
- Date and attribution disputed
- Genre
- Theological Treatise
- Textual language
- Greek
- Translator
- C. D. Yonge
- Translation / Edition
- C. D. Yonge translation, first published 1854.
(6) Nor is it so very silly a thing to doubt whether the world is destroyed so as to pass into a state of non-existence, but rather whether it is subjected to a change from a new arrangement, being dissolved as to all the manifold forms of its elements and combinations so as to assume one and the same appearance, or whether, like a thing broken and dashed to pieces, it is subjected to a complete confusion of its different fragments.