Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 51

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[51] τάξιν. 15 ἀλλ’ ἐνδέχεται τάχα που καὶ παρθένον ψυχὴν πάθεσιν
ἀκολάστοις μιανθεῖσαν αἰσχυνθῆναι· διόπερ ὁ χρησμὸς πεφύλακται θεὸν ἄνδρα εἰπὼν οὐ παρθένου — τρεπτὴ γὰρ ἥδε καὶ θνητή — ἀλλὰ „παρθενίας“ (Ier. 3, 4), τῆς ἀεὶ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ ὡσαύτως ἐχούσης ἰδέας· γένεσιν γὰρ καὶ φθορὰν ἐνδεχομένων φύσει τῶν ποιῶν, ἄφθαρτον αἱ τυποῦσαι δυνάμεις τῶν ἐν μέρει κλῆρον εἰλήχασι.

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.) — 51 focus

But it is, perhaps, possible that in some cases a virgin soul may be polluted by intemperate passions, and so become impure. On which account the sacred oracle has been cautious, calling God the husband, not of a virgin, for a virgin is subject to change and to mortality, but of virginity; of an idea, that is to say, which is always existing in the same principles and in the same manner. For as all things endowed with distinctive qualities are by nature liable to origination and to destruction, so those archetypal powers, which are the makers of those particular things, have received an imperishable inheritance in their turn.

Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 51

ed. Leopold Cohn

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