Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 32

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[32] τὸν δέ γε Βαλαὰμ μάταιον λαὸν ὄντα ἐξωπλισμένον εἰσάγει Μωυσῆς ἀστράτευτον καὶ λιποτάκτην, εἰδὼς πόλεμον ὃν ἁρμόττει ψυχῇ περὶ ¹² ἐπιστήμης ποιεῖσθαι· λέγει γὰρ ὄνῳ, τῇ ἀλόγῳ προαιρέσει τοῦ βίου, ᾗ πᾶς ἄφρων ἐπιβέβηκεν, ὅτι „εἰ μάχαιραν εἶχον, ἤδη ἂν ἐξεκέντησά σε“ (Num. 22,29 )· καὶ μεγίστη χάρις τῷ τεχνίτῃ, ὅτι τὴν ἀφροσύνης λύτταν εἰδὼς οὐκ ἐνέδωκεν αὐτῇ, καθάπερ ξίφος μεμηνότι, δύναμιν λόγων, ἵνα μὴ πολλὴν καὶ ἄδικον ἅπασι τοῖς ἐντυγχάνουσιν ἐνεργάσηται
φθοράν.

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.)

Translations (1)

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.) — 32 focus

[32] Moses also represents Balaam, who is the symbol of a vain people, stripped of his arms, as a runaway and deserter, well knowing the war which it becomes the soul to carry on for the sake of knowledge; for he says to his ass, who is here a symbol of the irrational designs of life which every foolish man entertains, that "If I had had a sword, I should ere now have slain thee." ¹ And great thanks are due to the Maker of all things, because he, knowing the struggles and resistance of folly, did not give to it the power of language, which would have been like giving a sword to a madman, in order that it might have no power to work great and iniquitous destruction among all whom it should meet with.

Notes on the current edition

De Cherubim

1.
1 δυοῖν APH
3 ὁ om. HUF
4 ἐπὶ πᾶσι] ἐπὶ πάντων HL1 φαινόμενον] φερόμενον F δὴ] δὲ P
5 περί] παρά F
6 ἐναργῶς om. D ἀναδιδαχθήση ΑP1
7 γὰρ] δὲ D τῶν om. F ἀκράτων UF: ἀκηράτων ceteri, ἀκροτάτων D
8 ἀγαθὸς post. θεὸς transp. D τῆς codd.: ἀπὸ τῆς v oisUFD: ὧ ceteri
9 ἐκ om. D 9.
10 ἀπογενομένας APD
10 φιλοφροσύνην] ἀγάπην D κτήσῃ θεοῦ transp. F μήτε — μέγεθος (11) om. U μήτ’ AP εὖ om. D
11 πάσχῃς AP μήτ’ AP
12 ὑπομένης AP τι] τῆ AP
13 δι’ D: διὰ codd. μεγαλοδώρου coni. Mang. φλογίνην δὲ ῥόμφαν (sic) F
14 μέσον scripsi: μετὰ codd. : τομέα coni. Wendl., μετὰ Ε; Diels Sepfxov UF
17 μετρεῖν] ποιεῖν UF κατὰ θεὸν μετρεῖν transp. H
18 ἀπολιπὼν εἰσάγει τῷ γενητῷ] τῶν ἐν τῶ θνητῶ γένει UF γεννητῶ AP μίμῃμα ῥομφαίας trausp. UF
20 θεὸν codd.: τὸν θεὸν v
21 ἐξωπλισάηει μενον G εἰσάγει M Μωυσῆς UF: Μωὰβ ceteri
22 λιποτήκτην λειποτάκτην ceteri ἁρμόζει H

2.
15 —
13 DR fol. 195v Φίλωνος: ὦ διάνοια — φιλοδώρου θεοῦ.

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