Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 100

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[100] λίθων μὲν ἢ ξυλίνης ὕλης; ἄπαγε, ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ εἰπεῖν εὐαγές· οὐδὲ γάρ, εἰ πᾶσα γῆ χρυσὸς ἤ τι χρυσοῦ τιμαλφέστερον μεταβαλοῦσα ἐξαίφνης γένοιτο κἄπειτα δημιουργῶν
τέχναις στοὰς καὶ προπύλαια καὶ ἀνδρῶνας καὶ προτεμενίσματα καὶ νεὼς κατασκευαζόντων ἀναλωθείη, γένοιτ’ ἂν βάσις αὐτοῦ τοῖς

De Cherubim. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Cherubim (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 100 focus

[100] Shall we prepare him a house of stone or of wooden materials? Away! such an idea is not holy even to utter; for not even if the whole earth were to change its nature and to become on a sudden gold, or something more valuable than gold, and if it were then to be wholly consumed by the skill of workmen, who should make it into porticoes and vestibules, and chambers, and precincts, and temples—not even then could it be a place worthy for his feet to tread upon, but a pious soul is his fitting abode.

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