Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 64

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[64] 21 Ἤδη δ’ ὕδατος καὶ ἀέρος τὰ προσήκοντα τῶν ζῴων γένη καθάπερ τινὰ κλῆρον οἰκεῖον ἀπειληφότων, πάλιν ἐκάλει τὴν γῆν εἰς τὴν
τοῦ ὑπολειφθέντος μέρους γένεσιν — ὑπολέλειπτο δὲ μετὰ τὰ φυτὰ ζῴων τὰ χερσαῖα — καί φησιν· ἐξαγαγέτω ἡ γῆ κτήνη καὶ θηρία καὶ ἑρπετὰ καθ’ ἕκαστον γένος (Gen. 1,24). ἡ δὲ τὰ προσταχθέντα αὐτίκα ἀνίησι τῇ τε κατασκευῇ διαφέροντα καὶ ταῖς ῥώμαις καὶ ταῖς ἐνυπαρχούσαις βλαπτικαῖς ἢ ὠφελητικαῖς δυνάμεσιν.

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.) — 64 focus

So now when the air and the water had received their appropriate races of animals as an allotment that was their due, God again summoned the earth for the creation of that share which still remained: and after the production of plants, the terrestrial animals still remained. And God said, Let the earth bring forth cattle and beasts, and creeping things of each kind. And the earth did as it was commanded, and immediately sent forth animals differing in their formation and in their strength, and in the injurious or beneficial powers that were implanted in them.

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