Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 125

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[125] τί δήποτε; ὅτι ὁ θεὸς αἴτιον, οὐκ ὄργανον, τὸ δὲ γινόμενον δι’ ὀργάνου
μὲν ὑπὸ δὲ αἰτίου πάντως γίνεται. πρὸς γὰρ τήν τινος γένεσιν πολλὰ δεῖ συνελθεῖν, p. 162 M. τὸ ὑφ’ οὗ, τὸ ἐξ οὗ, τὸ δι’ οὗ, τὸ δι’ ὅ· καὶ ¹² ἔστι τὸ μὲν ὑφ’ οὗ τὸ αἴτιον, ἐξ οὗ δὲ ἡ ὕλη, δι’ οὗ δὲ τὸ ἐργαλεῖον, δι’ ὃ δὲ ἡ αἰτία.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 125 focus

[125] Because God was the cause, not the instrument; and what was born was created indeed through the agency of some instrument, but was by all means called into existence by the great first cause; for many things must co-operate in the origination of anything; by whom, from what, by means of what, and why? Now he by whom a thing originates is the cause; that from which a thing is made is the material; that by means of which it was made is the instrument; and why, is the object.

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De Cherubim

1.
2 ἐπειδὴ Mang. : ἐπὶ δὲ codd.
3 ἄν εὑρίσκηται AP δὴ corr. Turn.: δὲ codd.
4 πεπραθήσεται AP1
6 φυσιολογίας MG: φυσιολογήσας Η, φιλοσοφίας AP 6.
7 σκοπὸν ἅπαντα AP1
10 εὐπρεπῆ AP
11 ἐπεὶ] ἐπὶ P παράσχωνται AP
12 ἐπὶ καιρὸν M: ἐπὶ καιρῶν GH, ἐπικαίρως AP
13 ὠνούμενον AP1 14: πωλητὴς coni. Mang.
15 ἀεννάους codd. πηγὰς χαρίτων transp. AP
20 οὓς om. AP1
21 τοίνυν om. AP1 (Mang.) ὃς corr. Turn,: ὡς codd. γενηθὲν GH
22 τὸν seclusi
23 ἄνθρωπον] ἄνδρα AP
24 ὅτι] ὃν AP1
25 δ’ AP
26 τὸ ἐξ οὐ — ὑφ’ οὗ (200,1) om. G

2. 25—200,2 D C fol. 151r τοῦ αὐτοῦ Φίλωνος) ἐκ τοῦ περὶ τῶν Χερουβὶμ. πρὸς τὴν γένεσιν — ἡ αἰτία.

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