Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 36

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[36] οὐχ ὁρᾷς; τί οὖν νῦν ἡμᾶς αἰτιᾷ πρότερον, ὅτε εὐώδει σοι τὰ πράγματα, οὐχὶ μεμψάμενος; μένομεν γὰρ αἱ αὐταὶ μηδὲ τῆς ἑαυτῶν ¹ φύσεως μεταβάλλουσαι τὸ παράπαν στιγμήν· σὺ δὲ κριτηρίοις χρώμενος οὐχ ὑγιέσιν ἀλόγως σφαδᾴζεις· εἰ γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἔμαθες, ὅτι οὐχ ἅττ’ ἂν ἐπιτηδεύῃς ἀγαθῶν μετουσίας ἢ κακῶν ἐστιν αἴτια, ἀλλ’ ὁ δίοπος καὶ κυβερνήτης τοῦ παντὸς λόγος θεῖος, ῥᾷον ἂν ἔφερες τὰ συμπίπτοντα
παυσάμενος τοῦ συκοφαντεῖν καὶ ἐπιγράφειν ἡμῖν ἃ μὴ δυνάμεθα.

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.) — 36 focus

[36] Why, then, do you reproach us now, when you formerly had no fault to find with us, while your affairs were proceeding prosperously? For we are the same as we were before, having changed nothing of our nature, not the slightest jot. But you are now applying tests which have no soundness in them, and in consequence are unreasonably violent against us; for if you had understood from the beginning that it is not the pursuits which you follow that are the causes of your participation in good or in evil, but rather the divine reason, which is the helmsman and governor of the universe, then you would more easily have borne the events which have befallen you, ceasing to bring false accusations against us, and to attribute to us effects which we are unable to produce.

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De Cherubim

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3 τεχνητὴ AP
4 μεμηνότι ξίφος AP, γε μὴν ὅτι ξίφος UF, ξίφος δύναμιν μεμηνότα M δύναμις UF
5 λόγου F ἅπασι om. HL1 ἐργάσηται HUF
7 ματαιάζων] καταίζων U τινὰ AP ἄλλων G 7.
8 τὸν ποριστικὸν F
8 αἴσι’ ἀπαντᾶ H coir. : αἴσια ἅπαντα MG, αἴσια πάντα ceteri τὰ om. UF
9 ἐπωχεῖται Η ἐνειλημμένος Ε; coni. Mang. ἀπρὴξ F
11 ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις codd. : τῆς ἐπιθυμίας Mang. (in toxtu) περιθεῖναι] ἐπιθεῖναι δυναμνένοις UF
12 ὀνειδίζειν F φάσκων] πάσχων UF
13 δ’ AP ὡς ἀγαθοὺς UF: ὡς oin. ceteri 13.
14 ἐπιδέχεται Α
16 ἐξαργυρισμὸν UF
18 ἐνεργεστέραν MUF
19 ὑψαυχένων UF
20 ἐπιβεβήκεις UF ἄλλως] ἀλλ’ ὡς UF, Ε; ἄλλως coni. Markland εἰργασάμεθα UF: εἰργάσμεθα ceteri εἰργάσμεθά σοι ἄλλως tiansp. AP
21 ἴδε τὸν] εἰ δέ τὸ F ἐξεναντίας ἑστῶτα UF τοῦ θεοῦ U 21.
22 ἐνωπλισμένον ἄγγελον UF: ἄγγελον om. ceteri
23 οὐχ ὁρᾷς om. UF αἰτιᾷ ἡμᾶς transp. GH
24 οὐχὶ] οὐκ ἧς UF μένομεν UF: ὁ μὲν ’H’, ἐσμὲν G2H2 αἱ αὐταὶ UFH2: ἑαυτὰ MPGH1, ἑαυτῶ Α μηδὲ scripsi: μηδὲν codd.

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