Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 149

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[149] φησὶν οὖν ὅτι πάντα τὰ ζῷα ἤγαγεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς τὸν Ἀδάμ, ἰδεῖν βουλόμενος τίνας θήσεται προσρήσεις ἑκάστοις, οὐχ ὅτι ἐνεδοίαζεν — ἄγνωστον γὰρ οὐδὲν θεῷ —, ἀλλ’ ὅτι ᾔδει τὴν λογικὴν ἐν θνητῷ φύσιν
κατεσκευακὼς αὐτοκίνητον, ὅπως ἀμέτοχος αὐτὸς ᾖ κακίας. ἀπεπειρᾶτο δ’ ὡς ὑφηγητὴς γνωρίμου τὴν ἐνδιάθετον ἕξιν ἀνακινῶν καὶ πρὸς ἐπίδειξιν τῶν οἰκείων ἀνακαλῶν ἔργων, ἵν’ ἀπαυτοματίσῃ τὰς θέσεις μήτ’ ἀνοικείους μήτ’ ἀναρμόστους ἀλλ’ ἐμφαινούσας εὖ μάλα τὰς τῶν ὑποκειμένων ἰδιότητας.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 149 focus

[149] Accordingly, Moses says, that God brought all the animals to man, wishing to see what names he would give to each. Not because he was in doubt, for nothing is unknown to God, but because he knew that he had formed in mortal man a rational nature capable of moving of its own accord, in order that he might be free from all participation in vice. But he was now trying him as a master might try his pupil, stirring up the disposition which he had implanted in him; and moreover exciting him to a contemplation of his own works, that he might extemporise them names which should not be inappropriate nor unbecoming, but which should well and clearly display the peculiar qualities of the different subjects.

Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 149

ed. Leopold Cohn

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