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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 8 · II.8.45.3–II.8.46.1
Ancient Greek
p. 646Ἰαμβλίχου — συνέχεια
Καὶ καθ’ ὅσον μὲν λόγον καθαρὸν αὐθυπόστατον καὶ αὐτοκίνητον ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ τε ἐνεργοῦντα καὶ τέλειον ἡ ψυχὴ συνείληφεν ἐν ἑαυτῇ, κατὰ τοσοῦτον ἀπόλυτός ἐστι πάντων τῶν ἔξωθεν· καθ’ ὅσον γε μὴν καὶ ζωὰς ἄλλας προβάλλει ῥεπούσας εἰς τὴν γένεσιν καὶ ἐπικοινωνεῖ τῷ σώματι, κατὰ τοσοῦτον ἔχει συμπλοκὴν καὶ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ κόσμου διάταξιν.
Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Εἰ δέ τις ταὐτόματον καὶ τὴν τύχην ἐπεισάγων ἀναιρεῖν οἴεται τὴν τάξιν, μαθέτω ὡς οὐδέν ἐστιν ἐν τῷ παντὶ ἄτακτον οὐδ’ ἐπεισοδιῶδες οὐδὲ ἄνευ αἰτίας οὐδὲ ἀόριστον οὐδὲ εἰκῇ οὐδ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ μηδενὸς ἐπεισιὸν οὐδὲ κατὰ συμβεβηκός. Οὔκουν ἀναιρεῖται ἡ τάξις καὶ συνέχεια τῶν αἰτιῶν καὶ ἡ τῶν ἀρχῶν ἕνωσις καὶ ἡ δι’ ὅλων διατείνουσα τῶν πρώτων ἐπικράτεια.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 8
p. 647Iamblichus continued
To the extent that the soul has taken into itself a pure rational principle that subsists of itself, moves itself, acts from itself, and is perfect, it is free from everything external.903 But to the extent that it also puts forth other modes of life inclining toward coming into being and shares in the body, it is enmeshed in the ordering of the cosmos as well.904
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If anyone thinks that by introducing spontaneity and fortune he abolishes order, let him learn that nothing in the universe is disorderly, an isolated episode, without a cause, indeterminate, random, intruding out of nothing, or accidental. Accordingly, the order and continuity of causes are not abolished, nor the unity of principles, nor the dominance of the first principles that extends through everything.905
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The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.
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Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.
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