Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 77

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[77] 25 p. 18 Μ. Ἐπιζητήσειε δ’ ἄν τις τὴν αἰτίαν, δι’ ἣν ὕστατόν ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος τῆς τοῦ κόσμου γενέσεως· ἐφ’ ἅπασι γὰρ τοῖς ἄλλοις αὐτὸν
ὁ ποιητὴς καὶ πατήρ, ὥσπερ αἱ ἱεραὶ γραφαὶ μηνύουσιν, εἰργάσατο. λέγουσιν οὖν οἱ τοῖς νόμοις ἐπὶ πλέον ἐμβαθύναντες καὶ τὰ κατ’ αὐτοὺς ¹ ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα μετὰ πάσης ἐξετάσεως ἀκριβοῦντες, ὅτι τῆς αὑτοῦ συγγενείας μεταδοὺς ὁ θεὸς ἀνθρώπῳ τῆς λογικῆς, ἥτις ἀρίστη δωρεῶν ἦν, οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἐφθόνησεν, ἀλλ’ ὡς οἰκειοτάτῳ καὶ φιλτάτῳ ζῴῳ τὰ ἐν κόσμῳ πάντα προητοιμάσατο βουληθεὶς γενόμενον αὐτὸν μηδενὸς ἀπορῆσαι τῶν πρός τε τὸ ζῆν καὶ τὸ εὖ ζῆν· ὧν τὸ μὲν παρασκευάζουσιν
αἱ χορηγίαι καὶ ἀφθονίαι τῶν πρὸς ἀπόλαυσιν, τὸ δὲ ἡ θεωρία τῶν κατ’ οὐρανόν, ἀφ’ ἧς πληχθεὶς ὁ νοῦς ἔρωτα καὶ πόθον ἔσχε τῆς τούτων ἐπιστήμης· ὅθεν τὸ φιλοσοφίας ἀνεβλάστησε γένος, ὑφ’ οὗ καίτοι θνητὸς ὢν ἄνθρωπος ἀπαθανατίζεται.

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.) — 77 focus

And some one may inquire the cause why it was that man was the last work in the creation of the world. For the Creator and Father created him after every thing else as the sacred scriptures inform us. Accordingly, they who have gone most deeply into the laws, and who to the best of their power have investigated everything that is contained in them with all diligence, say that God, when he had given to man to partake of kindred with himself, grudged him neither reason, which is the most excellent of all gifts, nor anything else that is good; but before his creation, provided for him every thing in the world, as for the animal most resembling himself, and dearest to him, being desirous that when he was born, he should be in want of nothing requisite for living, and for living well; the first of which objects is provided for by the abundance of supplies which are furnished to him for his enjoyment, and the other by his power of contemplation of the heavenly bodies, by which the mind is smitten so as to conceive a love and desire for knowledge on those subjects; owing to which desire, philosophy has sprung up, by which, man, though mortal, is made immortal.

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De opificio mundi

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1 ὡς ἄν οἶκος] ὅσ’ ἂν οὐ κοσμεῖ M ὧ V: ὡς F1, οἶς MF2H, οἷς καὶ G, οἷς αὗται ABP ἐνδιετᾶσθαι V
4 αὐτὸς] αὐτῶν ὁ ABP δι’ ὅλου Η σπουδαῖος γὰρ V
6 ἀνδρίαν ABPFG
7 φράσαι] φάναι ABP
8 καὶ καλὰ VM καὶ ἀρετὴν VM
9 δι’ αὐτοῦ MB, διὰ τοῦ V
10 διάφορα M
11 τῆ—τῆ VMFG: πῆ—πῆ ceteri
1 2 ἀνακεκραμένης om. M βελτίονος] κρείττονος M εἰδέας V, ἰδέας om. M
13 τοῦτ’ V: τοῦτο ceteri
14 ποιήσωμεν VM: ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον ceteri
15 τε om. F
16 πράξεσι V ὁ θεὸς M
18 ἐγγόνοις MH δ’ ἡ M: δὴ V, δὲ ἡ ceteri αἱ] ἡ ΜΒ
19 ἐνέργεια MB
20 δεδημιουργεῖσθαι V μέρη V
21 προσεχέστατα V (Mang.): ἔσχατα ceteri ἰδεῶν M
23 ἐπιζητήσιε V ὕστατον V, ὕστατος M: ὕστατον ἔργον ceteri
24 ὁ ἄνθρωπος ABP ἅπασιν V αὐτὸς M
25 ὥσπερ V: ὡς ceteri αἱ ἱεραὶ VMF: αἱ om. ceteri
26 ἐπιπλέον ἐμβαθύναντες V: ἐμβαθύναντες ἐπιπλέον Η, τ ἐπιπλέον ἐμβαθύνοντες ceteri καθ’ αὐτοὺς M

Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 77

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