Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 135

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[135] τοῦ δ’ αἰσθητοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ μέρους ἀνθρώπου τὴν κατασκευὴν σύνθετον εἶναί φησιν ἔκ τε γεώδους
¹ οὐσίας καὶ πνεύματος θείου· γεγενῆσθαι γὰρ τὸ μὲν σῶμα χοῦν τοῦ τεχνίτου λαβόντος καὶ μορφὴν ἀνθρωπίνην ἐξ αὐτοῦ διαπλάσαντος, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν ἀπ’ οὐδενὸς γενητοῦ τὸ παράπαν, ἀλλ’ ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ ἡγεμόνος τῶν πάντων· ὃ γὰρ ἐνεφύσησεν, οὐδὲν ἦν ἕτερον ἢ πνεῦμα
θεῖον ἀπὸ τῆς μακαρίας καὶ εὐδαίμονος φύσεως ἐκείνης ἀποικίαν τὴν ἐνθάδε στειλάμενον ἐπ’ ὠφελείᾳ τοῦ γένους ἡμῶν, ἵν’ εἰ καὶ θνητόν ἐστι κατὰ τὴν ὁρατὴν μερίδα, κατὰ γοῦν τὴν ἀόρατον ἀθανατίζηται. διὸ καὶ κυρίως ἄν τις εἴποι τὸν ἄνθρωπον θνητῆς καὶ ἀθανάτου φύσεως εἶναι μεθόριον ἑκατέρας ὅσον ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστι μετέχοντα καὶ γεγενῆσθαι
θνητὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ ἀθάνατον, θνητὸν μὲν κατὰ τὸ σῶμα, κατὰ δὲ τὴν διάνοιαν ἀθάνατον.

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.) — 135 focus

[135] But he asserts that the formation of the individual man, perceptible by the external senses is a composition of earthy substance, and divine spirit. For that the body was created by the Creator taking a lump of clay, and fashioning the human form out of it; but that the soul proceeds from no created thing at all, but from the Father and Ruler of all things. For when he uses the expression, he breathed into, etc., he means nothing else than the divine spirit proceeding from that happy and blessed nature, sent to take up its habitation here on earth, for the advantage of our race, in order that, even if man is mortal according to that portion of him which is visible, he may at all events be immortal according to that portion which is invisible; and for this reason, one may properly say that man is on the boundaries of a better and an immortal nature, partaking of each as far as it is necessary for him; and that he was born at the same time, both mortal and the immortal. Mortal as to his body, but immortal as to his intellect.

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De opificio mundi

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1 δὲ ABP ἀπᾴδει M: ἀποδεῖ ceteri
3 προευτρεπιζομένη ABP τῶν γεννησομένων Η
4 αὑτὴν om. M Δημήτεραν M
5 συνθείς G
6 μιμεῖται M ἑτύμως H, ἑτοίμως FL, ὁμοίως M ποιητικὸν FGH: ποιητῶν ceteri
8 διαοι μονὴ M
9 καὶ γῇ om. M
10 ἵνα καὶ M: καὶ om. ceteri
11 ἔχη B, ἔχει FH
12 τὸν ἄνθρωπον MB: τὸν om. ceteri
13 λαβὼν om. FG τῆς om. M
15 καὶ παμμεγέθης M
16 τοῦ θεοῦ M ἤδη αἰσθητὸς H
17 ἀνὴρ—θνητός om. M
18 θνητὸς ὤν Η
19 οὔτ’ ἄρρεν Mang.: οὔτε γὰρ ἄρρεν M, οὔτ’ ἄρρην ceteri ἄφθαρτον M
20 φασιν M ἔκ τε M: τε om. ceteri
5 Plat. Menex. 238 Α
12 sqq. Origenes in Gen. Hom. I
13 (VIII p. 121 Lomm.) . . . Hunc sane hominem, quem dicit ad imaginem Dei factum, non intellegimus corporalem; non enim corporis figmentum Dei imaginem continet, neque factus esse corporalis homo dicitur, sed plasmatus . . .; ait enim: „et plasmavit Deus hominem“, est, finxit de terrae limo; is autem, qui ad imaginem Dei factus est et ad similitudinem, interior homo noster est, invisibilis et incorporalis et incorruptus atque immortalis. Chalcid. in Plat. Tim. cap. 278 . . denique etiam hominem prius intellegibilem et exemplum archetypum generis humani, tunc demum corporeum factum a Deo esse dicit (scil. Philo).

Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 135

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