Philo Judaeus De Opificio Mundi 90

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[90] τὴν δ’ ἑβδομάδος φύσιν οὐκ οἶδ’ εἴ τις ἱκανῶς ἂν ὑμνῆσαι δύναιτο παντὸς οὖσαν λόγου κρείττονα· οὐ μὴν ὅτι θαυμασιωτέρα τῶν περὶ αὐτῆς λεγομένων ἐστί, διὰ τοῦθ’ ἡσυχαστέον,
ἀλλ’ ἐπιτολμητέον, εἰ καὶ μὴ πάντα μηδὲ τὰ κυριώτατα οἷόν τε, τὰ γοῦν ταῖς ἡμετέραις διανοίαις ἐφικτὰ δηλῶσαι.

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.) — 90 focus

[90] And I know not if any one would be able to celebrate the nature of the number seven in adequate terms, since it is superior to every form of expression. But it does not follow that because it is more admirable than anything that can be said of it, that on that account one ought to keep silence; but rather we ought to try, even if one cannot say everything which is proper, or even that which is most proper, at all events to utter such things as may be attainable by our capacities.

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