Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 16

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[16] προλαβὼν γὰρ ὁ ¹² θεὸς ἅτε θεὸς ὅτι μίμημα καλὸν οὐκ ἄν ποτε γένοιτο δίχα καλοῦ παραδείγματος οὐδέ τι τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἀνυπαίτιον, ὃ μὴ πρὸς ἀρχέτυπον καὶ νοητὴν ἰδέαν ἀπεικονίσθη, βουληθεὶς τὸν ὁρατὸν κόσμον τουτονὶ δημιουργῆσαι προεξετύπου τὸν νοητόν, ἵνα χρώμενος ἀσωμάτῳ καὶ θεοειδεστάτῳ
παραδείγματι τὸν σωματικὸν ἀπεργάσηται, πρεσβυτέρου νεώτερον ἀπεικόνισμα, τοσαῦτα περιέξοντα αἰσθητὰ γένη ὅσαπερ ἐν ἐκείνῳ νοητά.

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.) — 16 focus

[16] for God, as apprehending beforehand, as a God must do, that there could not exist a good imitation without a good model, and that of the things perceptible to the external senses nothing could be faultless which was not fashioned with reference to some archetypal idea conceived by the intellect, when he had determined to create this visible world, previously formed that one which is perceptible only by the intellect, in order that so using an incorporeal model formed as far as possible on the image of God, he might then make this corporeal world, a younger likeness of the elder creation, which should embrace as many different genera perceptible to the external senses, as the other world contains of those which are visible only to the intellect.

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De opificio mundi

1.
1 δὲ om. V, δ’ FGH φησὶ δημιουργηθῆναι ABP
2 χρόνον V, τοῦ χρόνων M, τοῦ τῶν χρόνων ABP θεὸν εἰκὸς E
3 οὐ π. ἀλλὰ κ. δ. μόνον coni. Wendl.
4 γιγνομένοις V τάξει] τάξεως M δὲ VHR: δ’ ceteri
5 ὁ πρῶτος MABP
6 αὐτοῦ VMABP μέρεσιν V ἡμηΐσους V
7 τριάδος] τριῶν ABP
8 ἄρρεν M πέφυκεν V κἀκ FGH: καὶ ἐκ ceteri
9 οὖσι] δυσὶ MABP ἀρτίον V περιττον (sic) V
10 δυὰς δ’ ἀρτίων] δύο δ’ ἄρτιον V ἀμφοῖν] ἐπ’ ἀμφ’ οἶν FGH
11 ἑξάς] ἕξ FGH δεῖ FGHR γὰρ] δὲ R μὲν ὄντα] μένοντα V, μὲν om. BR
12 ἑαυτῷ FGH: αὐτῷ ABP, αὐτῷ VM 12.
13 τὰ ἐξ ἐνδοιασμοῦ M
13 γενέσεις om. M πρόσμικτον V ἀρτίου περιττὸν V
14 περὶ ἓξ ὄντα M σπείραντος M
15 εἰδέαν V, ἰδέας Β ἑκάστην M 15.
16 ἀπένιμεν V
16 ἔνια] ἑνὶ M
18 ὀνόματι εὐθυβόλῳ scripsi: ὀνόματι εὐθυβόλως V, εὐθυβόλως (om. ὀνόματι) ceteri πρὸς αγορευθῆναι (sic) V φύσιν τε καὶ ΜΑΒP
19 αὐτήν codd., αὐτῇ corr. Turn. δὲ ὅσα] δ’ ὡς MABP τ’ ἔστι ABP
20 περιεχομένων M
21 μηνύσει FGH λάβ’ προιδὼν Α, προιδὼν BP2

2. 11—12 δεῖ—ἕξ R fol. 89v
17 τὴν δὲ πρώτην οὐ καλεῖ πρώτην, ἶνα μὴ ταῖς συγκαταριθμῆται R ibid. 21—5,3 προλαβὼν—ἀπεικονίσθη R ibid.; tum pergit: εἶτα λέγει τὸν ὁρατόν τοῦτον κόσμον πρὸς ἀόρατον ἀρχέτυπον γενέσθαι, καὶ χρῆται παραδείγματι τοιούτῳ· ἐπειδὰν πόλις κτλ. (9) 4,
21 sqq. Chalcid. in Plat. Tim. cap. 218 Quod ergo illud caelum prius quam cetera deus condidit quamve terram? Philo carentes corpore atque intellegibiles essentias esse censet, ideas et exemplaria tam siccae istius terrae quam soliditatis. 9—6,5 ἐπειδὰν—αὐτῆς R ibid.
12 cf. Plat, Tim.
24 C

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