Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 38

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[38] φύσει γὰρ παντὸς ὕδατος p. 146 M. ἠρεμίαν ἐξ αὑτοῦ λαχόντος, ὅταν μὲν πνεῦμα οὔριον κατ’
οἰάκων ἐπιγένηται, παντὸς ἀνασεισθέντος κάλου, πλησίστιοι μέχρι λιμένων αἱ νῆες καταίρουσιν, ὅταν δὲ αἰφνίδιον κατὰ πρῴρας ἐξεναντίας κατασκήψῃ, πολὺν σάλον καὶ κλόνον ἐγείρει καὶ ἀνατρέπει· καὶ τοῦ συμβαίνοντος ἡ μηδὲν αἰτία θάλαττα τὴν πρόφασιν ἴσχει, φανερῶς ταῖς ἀνέσεσι καὶ σφοδρότησι τῶν ἀνέμων ἢ γαληνιάζουσα ἢ κυμαίνουσα".

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.) — 38 focus

[38] accordingly, when a favourable gale blows upon the stern of a ship, every rope is bent, and the ship is in full sail, conveying the mariners to the harbour; but when on a sudden the wind changes to the opposite direction, and blows against the head of the vessel, it then raises a heavy swell and great disturbance in the water, and upsets the ship; and the sea, which was in no respect the cause of what has happened is blamed for it, though it notoriously is either calm or stormy according to the gentleness or violence of the winds." -

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