Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 62

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[62] ὁ δ’ ὥσπερ ἐκ νυκτὸς ἡλιακῷ φέγγει καταυγασθεὶς ἀπαστράπτοντι ἢ ἐκ βαθέος ὕπνου περιαναστὰς ἢ οἷα τυφλὸς ἐξαίφνης ἀναβλέψας ἐνετύγχανε πᾶσιν ἀθρόως ὧν γένεσίς ἐστιν, οὐρανῷ,
γῇ, ὕδατι, ἀέρι, φυτοῖς, ζῴοις, σχέσεσιν αὐτῶν, ποιότησι, δυνάμεσιν, ἕξεσι, διαθέσεσι, κινήσεσιν, ἐνεργείαις, πράξεσι, μεταβολαῖς, φθοραῖς, καὶ τὰ μὲν ἑώρα, τῶν δὲ ἤκουε, τῶν δὲ ἐγεύετο, τῶν δὲ ὠσφραίνετο, τῶν δὲ ἥπτετο· καὶ πρὸς ἃ μὲν ἐπικλινῶς εἶχεν, ἡδονὰς ἐργαζόμενα, τῶν δὲ ἀπεστρέφετο, ἐμποιούντων ἀλγηδόνας.

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.) — 62 focus

[62] and the mind being now irradiated with light, as if the beams of the sun had suddenly shone upon it after night, or as if it had just arisen from a deep sleep, or as if it had been to see a blind man suddenly restored to sight, came at once upon all the things with which creation was concerned, heaven, and earth, and water, and air, and plants, and animals, and their habits, and distinctive qualities, and faculties, and dispositions, and movements, and energies, and actions, and changes, and ends; and some things he saw, and some things he heard, and some he tasted, and some he smelled, and some he touched; and towards some he felt an inclination as they were productive of pleasure, and to some he felt aversion inasmuch as they caused pain.

Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 62

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