Note 6 — A Review.

There was a Sect amongst the Jews that held this Perpetuity and Immutability of Nature; and Maimonides himself was of this Principle, and gives the same Reason for it with the Scoffers here in the Text, Quod mundus retinet & sequitur Consuetudinem suam. And as to those of the Jews that were Aristoteleans, it was very suitable to their principles to hold the Incorruptibility of the World, as their Master did. Vid. Med. in loc.