PHILO (De mundo, & 7):
"But in eternity nothing is passed, nothing is about to be, but
it exists only" (EN AIWNI DE OUTE PARELHLUTHEN, OUTE MELLEI,
ALLA MONON hUPSESTHKEN)
ARISTOTELES (PERI OURANOU (de coelo) , I, 9):
"Time is the number of movement, but there is no movement
without a physical body. But outside heaven it has been shown
that there is not, nor possibly can come into existence, any
body. lt is evident then that there is neither place, nor void,
nor time outside. Wherefore neither in place are things there
formed by nature; nor does time cause them to grow old; neither
is there any change of any thing of those things which are
arranged beyond the outermost orbit; but unchangeable, and
subject to no influence, having the best and most independent
life, they continue for all eternity (AIWNA). For this
expression has been divinely uttered by the ancients; for the
completeness which embraces the time of the life of each outside
which there is nothing, according to nature, is called the AIWN
of each. According to the same word the completeness of the
whole heaven, and the completeness which embraces all time and
infinitude is AIWN, having received this name from existing for
ever (APO TOU AEI EINAI), immortal (ATHANATOS), and divine."
NT (2 Corinthians 4:18):
"For the things that are seen are transient (or, temporary,
PROSKAIRA), but the things that are unseen are eternal
(AIWNIA)." In this instructive verse AIWNIOS is clearly and
definitely contrasted with PROSKAIROS.
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