Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 39

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[39] διὰ
τούτων οὖν ἁπάντων ἱκανῶς οἶμαι δεδηλῶσθαι, ὅτι λόγον ἡ φύσις δυνατώτατον σύμμαχον ἀνθρώπῳ δημιουργήσασα τὸν μὲν αὐτῷ χρῆσθαι δυνάμενον ὀρθῶς ἀπέδειξεν εὐδαίμονα καὶ λογικὸν ὄντως, τὸν δὲ μὴ δυνάμενον ἄλογόν τε καὶ κακοδαίμονα.

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.) — 39 focus

[39] By all these considerations I think it has been abundantly shown, that nature has made reason the most powerful coadjutor of man, and has made him, who is able to make a proper use of it, happy and truly rational; but him who has not this faculty, she has rendered irrational and unhappy.

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