Philo Judaeus, De Opificio Mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, 83

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[83] 28 ἐπὶ πᾶσι μέντοι κἀκεῖνο λέγεται πρὸς ἀπόδοσιν αἰτίας ἀναγκαίας. ἔδει πάντων γεγονότων ὕστατον φῦναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἵνα τελευταῖος ἐξαπιναίως τοῖς ἄλλοις ζῴοις ἐπιφανεὶς ἐμποιήσῃ κατάπληξιν· ἔμελλε
γὰρ ἰδόντα πρῶτον τεθηπέναι καὶ προσκυνεῖν ὡς ἂν ἡγεμόνα φύσει καὶ δεσπότην· διὸ καὶ θεασάμενα πάντα διὰ πάντων ἡμερώθη καὶ ὅσα τὰς φύσεις ἀγριώτατα κατὰ τὴν πρώτην εὐθὺς πρόσοψιν ἐγίνετο χειροηθέστατα, τὰς μὲν ἀτιθάσους λύττας ἐπιδεικνύμενα κατ’ ἀλλήλων, εἰς δὲ μόνον τὸν ἄνθρωπον τιθασευόμενα.

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.) — 83 focus

And besides all this, another is also mentioned among the necessary causes. It was necessary that man should be the last of all created beings; in order that being so, and appearing suddenly, he might strike terror into the other animals. For it was fitting that they, as soon as they first saw him should admire and worship him, as their natural ruler and master; on which account, they all, as soon as they saw him, became tame before him; even those, who by nature were most savage, becoming at once most manageable at the first sight of him; displaying their unbridled ferocity to one another, and being tame to man alone.

Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 83

ed. Leopold Cohn

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