Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 144

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[144] οὗτοι δὲ τίνες ἂν εἶεν ὅτι μὴ λογικαὶ καὶ θεῖαι φύσεις, αἱ μὲν ἀσώματοι καὶ νοηταί, αἱ δὲ οὐκ ἄνευ σωμάτων, ὁποίους συμβέβηκεν εἶναι τοὺς ἀστέρας; οἷς προσομιλῶν καὶ συνδιαιτώμενος εἰκότως ἐν ἀκράτῳ διέτριβεν εὐδαιμονίᾳ· συγγενής τε καὶ ἀγχίσπορος ὢν τοῦ ἡγεμόνος, ἅτε δὴ
πολλοῦ ῥυέντος εἰς αὐτὸν τοῦ θείου πνεύματος, πάντα καὶ λέγειν καὶ πράττειν ἐσπούδαζεν εἰς ἀρέσκειαν τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ βασιλέως, ἑπόμενος κατ’ ἴχνος αὐτῷ ταῖς ὁδοῖς, ἃς λεωφόρους p. 35 M. ἀνατέμνουσιν ἀρεταί, διότι μόναις ψυχαῖς θέμις προσέρχεσθαι τέλος ἡγουμέναις τὴν πρὸς τὸν γεννήσαντα θεὸν ἐξομοίωσιν.

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.) — 144 focus

[144] And who could these have been but rational divine natures, some of them incorporeal and perceptible only by intellect, and others not destitute of bodily substance, such in fact as the stars? And he who associated with and lived among them was naturally living in a state of unmixed happiness. And being akin and nearly related to the ruler of all, inasmuch as a great deal of the divine spirit had flowed into him, he was eager both to say and to do everything which might please his father and his king, following him step by step in the paths which the virtues prepare and make plain, as those in which those souls alone are permitted to proceed who consider the attaining a likeness to God who made them as the proper end of their existence.

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De opificio mundi

1.
2 δὲ FG
4 ὁ οἶκος G οἶκος αὐτῶ καὶ πόλις ὁ κόσμος M: οἶκος ὁ κόσμος αὐτῶ καὶ πόλις ceteri
5 καὶ] ἢ M
6 τῶν οm. ΑBP1
8 ἀκούειν ὡς δεσπότη M, ὡς δεσπότη ὑπακούειν ceteri δεδϊγμένων AP1, δεδειγμένων Β εὐσταθείαις Β
9 δὲ om. M ἀπολέμῳ MFG: ἀπολέμως ceteri ἀνεπιλήπτως M: ἀνεπίληπτος ceteri
10 εὐνόμως F1G1H, ἔννομος Mang. ἀναγκαῖον MF ξυνέβαινε L
11 πολιτείαν M ᾖ om. M δ’ M
12 ὃς] ὡς M προσονομάζεσθαι M 12.
13 θεῖος νόμος G
13 καὶ om. M
14 ταύτης] τῆς δὲ (sic) Mang. πολιτείας] πολίτας MABP
15 λέγοιτ᾿ Μ ἐνδίκως] εἰκότως ABP post μεγαλοπολῖται add. οἱ Β
16 γραφέντες ABP
17 καὶ θεῖαι M: καὶ οm. ceteri
18 δ’ M εἶναι συμβέβηκεν G
19 συνομιλῶν F1 ἀκράτῳ] ἀκροτάτῳ ABP
20 δὴ] δὲ FGH
21 τοῦ om. ABP
22 πατρὸς] πνς M post βασιλέως add. μετιὼν M
23 κατ’ ἴχνος αὐτῶ M: αὐτῶ κατ’ ἴχνος ceteri ἅς ὡς λεωφόρους Christophorson (Mang.) διότι M: δι’ ὦν ceteri
24 μόνον ἡ ψυχὴ θέμις προσέρχεσθαι τέλος ἡγουμένη M θέμις ψυχαῖς ABP

Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 144

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