Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 59

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[59] ἐκεῖνος δὲ πάσας τὰς αἰσθητικὰς δυνάμεις περικεκομμένος, ἀδύνατος ὄντως, ἥμισυ ψυχῆς τελείας, ἐνδέων δυνάμεως, ᾗ καταλαμβάνεσθαι σώματα πέφυκε, τμῆμα καθ’ ἑαυτὸν ¹ στερόμενον τοῦ συμφυοῦς οὐκ εὐτυχές, [οὐκ] ἄνευ βάκτρων τῶν αἰσθητικῶν ὀργάνων ἐτύγχανεν, οἷς ἱκανὸς ἦν σκηρίπτεσθαι κραδαινόμενος· παρ’ ἣν αἰτίαν καὶ πολὺ σκότος πάντων κατεκέχυτο τῶν σωμάτων, οὐδενὸς φανῆναι δυναμένου· ᾧ γὰρ γνωρίζεσθαι ἔμελλεν, αἴσθησις οὐκ ἦν.

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.) — 59 focus

[59] But this mind, being curtailed of all the faculties which are derived from the outward senses, and being really powerless, being but the half of a perfect soul, destitute of the faculty by which it might naturally be able to conceive bodies, being but a fragment of itself, deprived of its kindred organs, and as such unfortunately is wholly deprived of these organs of the external senses on which it might rely as on a staff, and by which it might have been able to support itself when tottering. From which cause a great darkness is spread over all bodies, so that nothing can be visible through it; for there was no outward sense by which things could be distinguished.

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De Cherubim

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1 τὰ ἑαυτοῖς τυγχάνοντα U, τάδ’ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς τυγχάνοντα F τὰς ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς om. UF Μωϋσῆ UF, Μωσεῖ ceteri
2 ἐνάργειαι corr. Turn.: ἐνέργειαι codd.
3 τὸ om. UF εὐθὺς om. L τοὔνομα καὶ addidi (idem coni. Wendl.)
4 οὐδέν F κἀκ U: καὶ ἐκ ceteri
5 ἐν ἡμῖν om. M κεκλήσθω δὲ] ὃς καλεῖται UF δ’ MAP
6 ἐντυχὼν δὲ UF
7 συνουσίας ἴσης ὀρεχθεὶς seclusit Diels συνουσίας ἴσης MUF : συνουσίασις ἧς GH, ἴσως συνουσίας AP πλησιάζῃ U, πλησιάζει F:. πλησιάσῃ ceteri ἡ δὲ codd.: ἥδε v 7.8 συλλαμβάνῃ et θηρεύῃ scripsi: συλλαμβάνει et θηρεύει codd.
9 χυλόν UF: χυμός M, χυμόν ceteri
10 τῆς γεύσεως U ἁφῆς] ἀφ’ ἦς MU, ἁφῶν F συλλαβοῦσα UF: συλλαβὼν ceteri τε om. UF
11 τὸ μέγιστον ψυχῆς transp. UF
12 ὠήθει Α αὐτοῦ codd.
13 ὠσφραίνετο U, ὀσφραίνετο F εὑρετὴν] εὐεργέτην UF
14 τεχνήτην AP δὲ τοῦτο] γὰρ τοῦθ’ (sic) UF ἀλόγως ἴσως UFL2
15 αἰσθήσεσι UF οὐδ’ εἶχεν αἴσθησιν om. UF
17 τότε δὴ] ἀτελῆ UFL2
18 ἀθροῦν A: ἄθρουν UF, θροῦν ceteri; ἀρκοῦν coni. Markiand οὑκ ἔχων Markland: τ’ ἔχων AP, τε ἔχων cetcri θηρεύσει] ὁμηρεύσει UF 19.
20 πηρωθέντας AP
20 αἴσθησιν οὗτος transp. AP
23 δυνάμεως om. UF ἡ] ὧ UF στερούμενον AP, στερόμενος F

Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 59

ed. Leopold Cohn

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