Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 8

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[8] Μωυσῆς δὲ καὶ φιλοσοφίας ἐπ’ αὐτὴν φθάσας ἀκρότητα καὶ χρησμοῖς τὰ πολλὰ καὶ συνεκτικώτατα τῶν τῆς φύσεως ἀναδιδαχθεὶς ἔγνω δή, ὅτι ἀναγκαιότατόν ἐστιν ἐν τοῖς οὖσι τὸ μὲν εἶναι δραστήριον αἴτιον, τὸ δὲ παθητόν, καὶ ὅτι τὸ μὲν δραστήριον ὁ τῶν ὅλων νοῦς ἐστιν εἱλικρινέστατος καὶ ἀκραιφνέστατος, κρείττων ἢ ἀρετὴ καὶ κρείττων
¹² ἢ ἐπιστήμη καὶ κρείττων ἢ αὐτὸ τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ καλόν,

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.) — 8 focus

[8] But Moses, who had early reached the very summits of philosophy,¹ and who had learnt from the oracles of God the most numerous and important of the principles of nature, was well aware that it is indispensable that in all existing things there must be an active cause, and a passive subject; and that the active cause is the intellect of the universe, thoroughly unadulterated and thoroughly unmixed, superior to virtue and superior to science, superior even to abstract good or abstract beauty;

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De opificio mundi

1.
1 ἀνυμνῆσαι VFGH, ἐρεῖ R δύναιτο om. R, δύναται F
2 θνητοῦ] γενητοῦ MABP ὀργάνῳ HR, ὀργάνου FG
3 τοῦτ’ V, ταῦτα R, ταύτης οὔθ’ M ἀλλὰ VR
4 δὲ R
6 κατησχημένων V, κατισχημένην AP, κατεσχημένον Β ἴε αἰ κολοσιέων M, κολοσσαίων Α, κολοσσιέων Β, κολοσσιαιέων R
7 τυπωθείσας Christophorson Mang. οὕτως V: οὕτω ceteri
9 σκιάζοντα V
10 παραδοθήσεται ABP ἐπειδὰν δ’ ἐκεῖνο V μυνηθῇ M
11 παρασιωπῆσαι Β, ὑποσιωπῆσαι N
13 τοῦ θεοῦ δὲ FGH, δὲ om. V Eus
14 ἀνάγνως V Eus: ἐναγῶς F1H, ἐναργῶς F2GR, οὐκ εὐαγῶς MABP καταψευσάμενοι V Eus τοῦ μὲν] τούτου V Eus
15 τοῦ μετρίου ἀποσεμνῦναι H
16 Μώσης codd.
συνεκτικοτάτων τῆς φύσεως V
18 δή, ὅτι] διότι VM Eus δραστήριον ὡς αἴτιον MABP
19 αἴτιον—δραστήριον om. Eus
20 κρείττων ἡ ἀρετὴ V, κρείττω τε ἡ ἀρετὴ M, κρεῖττον τε ἡ ἀρετὴ AB, κρείττων τε ἡ ἀρετὴ ceteri, κρείττων ἢ ἀρετὴ ω καὶ om. Eus καὶ κρεῖττον M, καὶ κρεῖττον AB

2. 6—11 ὡς—ὑποσιωπῆσαι N fol. 160v 12—3,19 Τινὲς—θεολογήσας Euseb. VIII 13

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