On the Eternity of the World
Philo of Alexandria
Section 31
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.
(31) And this law and ordinance is established with reference to everything which is destroyed, that wherever composite things are existing in combination they are thrown into disorder instead of into the order in accordance with nature, which they previously enjoyed, and they are removed to situations opposite to those in which they were previously placed, so that they seem in a manner to be sojourners; and when they are dissolved again, then they return to the appropriate parts allotted to them by nature.