Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 82

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[82] 27 δευτέρα μὲν αἰτία ἥδε λελέχθω, τρίτη δ’ ἐστὶ τοιάδε. ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος τῶν γεγονότων ὁ θεὸς ἁρμόσασθαι διανοηθεὶς ὡς ἀναγκαῖα καὶ φίλτατα ἀρχὴν μὲν οὐρανὸν ἐποίει, τέλος δὲ ἄνθρωπον, τὸν μὲν τῶν ἐν
αἰσθητοῖς ἀφθάρτων τελειότατον, τὸν δὲ τῶν γηγενῶν καὶ φθαρτῶν ἄριστον, βραχύν, p. 20 M. εἰ δεῖ τἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν, οὐρανὸν πολλὰς ἐν αὑτῷ φύσεις ἀστεροειδεῖς ἀγαλματοφοροῦντα τέχναις καὶ ἐπιστήμαις καὶ τοῖς καθ’ ἑκάστην ἀρετὴν ἀοιδίμοις θεωρήμασιν· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐναντία φύσει τό τε φθαρτὸν καὶ τὸ ἄφθαρτον, εἴδους ἑκατέρου τὸ κάλλιστον ἀρχῇ καὶ τέλει
¹ προσένειμεν, ἀρχῇ μὲν οὐρανόν, ὡς ἐλέχθη, τέλει δὲ ἄνθρωπον.

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.) — 82 focus

I have now mentioned the second reason. There is also a third, which is as follows:—God, intending to adapt the beginning and the end of all created things together, as being all necessary and dear to one another, made heaven the beginning, and man the end: the one being the most perfect of incorruptible things, among those things which are perceptible by the external senses; and the other, the best of all earthborn and perishable productions—a short-lived heaven if one were to speak the truth, bearing within himself many starlike natures, by means of certain arts and sciences, and illustrious speculations, according to every kind of virtue. For since the corruptible and the incorruptible, are by nature opposite, he has allotted the best thing of each species to the beginning and to the end. Heaven, as I before said, to the beginning, and man to the end.

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De opificio mundi

1.
1 πιγῶν V
2 γεωπόνων V, τῶν γεωπόνων M: γεωπόνον ceteri καθ’ ἡμέραν MF
3 συγκομίζονται M
5 φοραὶ κατέσυραν V: φορὰ κατέσυρεν ceteri ἐπενεχθείσης VM: κατενεχθείσης ceteri ἀθρόας VF
6 ἀνέτρεψε MFG: ἀνέτρεψαν V, ἀνέστρεψε Η, κατέστρεψε ABP
7 δὲ καὶ G
8 ὁρμαί] φοραί ABP
9 αἱ] ἄν M τἀδικεῖν V: τὸ ἀδικεῖν ceteri φιλοτιμίαι V φράσαι] φάναι M
10 αἱ κακίαι καὶ om. B καθ’ V
11 ἀνόνητοι G ἀνηρτιμένου V τοῦ πολέμου V: τοῦ οm. ceteri
12 δὲ MFGH
14 ἐλπὶς ἄν ἣν γ’· ἤλπισαν εἰς M, ἤλπισαν ceteri ἅτε] ὄντα M φιλόκαλον καὶ προσέτι om. F
15 τἀγαθὰ VM: τὰ ἀγαθὰ ceteri
16 εὐμαρέστατον H τοῦ μὴ τὰ ὄντα AHP εἰς τὸ om. V παραγαγεῖν Christophorson (Mang.): παρελθεῖν codd. τὸ om. V
17 γεωργικῆς] δημιουργικῆς ABP
18 λελέχθω VM: λέλεκται ceteri δὲ ἐστὶν V
20 ἐποιεῖτο τὸ in ras.) M
21 αἰσθητικοῖς ABP τῶν om. M
22 δεῖ] δὲ M ἑαυτῶ MP
23 καὶ ἐπιστήμαις V: καί τισιν ἐπιστήμαις ceteri

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