Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 12

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[12] ἀλλ’ ὅ γε μέγας Μωυσῆς ἀλλοτριώτατον τοῦ p. 3M. ὁρατοῦ νομίσας εἶναι τὸ ἀγένητον — πᾶν γὰρ τὸ
αἰσθητὸν ἐν γενέσει καὶ μεταβολαῖς οὐδέποτε κατὰ ταὐτὰ ὄν — τῷ μὲν ἀοράτῳ καὶ νοητῷ προσένειμεν ὡς ἀδελφὸν καὶ συγγενὲς ἀιδιότητα, τῷ δ’ αἰσθητῷ γένεσιν οἰκεῖον ὄνομα ἐπεφήμισεν. ἐπεὶ οὖν ὁρατός τε καὶ αἰσθητὸς ὅδε ὁ κόσμος, ἀναγκαίως ἂν εἴη καὶ γενητός· ὅθεν οὐκ ἀπὸ σκοποῦ καὶ τὴν γένεσιν ἀνέγραψεν αὐτοῦ μάλα σεμνῶς θεολογήσας.

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De Opificio Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Opificio Mundi (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera que supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Creation of the World First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 12 focus

[12] But the great Moses, thinking that a thing which has not been uncreated is as alien as possible from that which is visible before our eyes (for everything which is the subject of our ^ senses exists in birth and in changes, and is not always in the same condition), has attributed eternity to that which is invisible and discerned only by our intellect as a kinsman and a brother, while of that which is the object of our external senses he had predicated generation as an appropriate description. Since, then, this world is visible and the object of our external senses, it follows of necessity that it must have been created; on which account it was not without a wise purpose that he recorded its creation, giving a very venerable account of God.

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De opificio mundi

1.
1 ἡ ἐπιστήμη VM καὶ κρεῖττον M, καὶ κρεῖττον ΑΒ αὑτὸ τὸ καλὸν καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ ἀγαθόν Β τἀγαθὸν Α
2 παθητικὸν V Eus κεινηθὲν V 3.
4 τόνδε τὸν κόσμον] τὸν δὲ κόσμον FGHR
4 ὃν οἱ φάσκοντες V Eus: ὃν om. ceteri ἀγέννητον (om. ὡς ἔστιν) R Eus
5 τῶν εἰς εὐσέβειαν ἡκόντων FGHR ἀποτεμνόμενοι R ἑ
6 ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα R αἱρεῖ (sic) V, αἱρεῖ M, ἐρεῖ G, ἱστορεῖ Η, οἶδεν R γ ὁ λόγος R
7 ὁ γὰρ R ἐκγόνων M καὶ ὅ R
8 καὶ βλαβερὰ om. Eus
9 τὰ δ’ ὅσα MFGHR, τὰ δ’ ὅσ’ ABP, ὅσα δὲ Eus κατὰ π. τ. V: κατὰ om. ceteri
10 γεγονὼς F οἰκίωσις V, ὁμοίωσις M 10.
11 ἀπεριμάχητον FGH: περιμάχητον ceteri
11 κατασκευάζον (ον ex ων corr.) V: ἐστὶ MABP, κατασκευάζειν FGH Eus τῶνδε V, τῶ δὲ M
12 ὡς τὸν ἔφορον V, sed ὡς rursus deletum ἔφορον] φόβον Eus
13 πάντ’ V Eus: τὰ πάντ’ M, τὰ πάντα ceteri γε om. Eus Μωυσῆς VF: Μώσης ceteri
15 τὰ αὐτὰ codd. ὃν] ὄντα M 15.
16 κατὰ ταῦτα ὄντων μὲν ἀοράτων καὶ νοητῶν V
16 συγγενῆ Eus
17 γένεσιν om. Eus καὶ οἰκεῖον Η, τὸ οἰκεῖον V εἴτ’ ἐφήμισεν V ἀόρατός V
18 ἀναγκαῖος VR καὶ οὐ γενητὸς V 18.
19 οὐκ ἀπὸ σκοποῦ om. Eus. codd. plerique αὐτοῦ ἀνεγράψατο μάλα θεολογῶν Eus. codd. plerique

2. 4—10 τὸν δὲ κόσμον—πεποιηκότι R fol. 89r 17—4,5 ἐπεὶ—ἕξ R ibid. 1*

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