Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 77

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[77] 24 „εἶπε“ γάρ φησιν „ὁ ἐχθρός Διώξας καταλήψομαι“. τίς οὖν ἂν γένοιτο δυσμενέστερος ψυχῇ πολέμιος
τοῦ διὰ μεγαλαυχίας τὸ ἴδιον θεοῦ προσκληροῦντος ἑαυτῷ; ἴδιον μὲν δὴ θεοῦ τὸ ποιεῖν, ὃ οὐ θέμις ἐπιγράψασθαι γενητῷ, ἴδιον δὲ γενητοῦ τὸ πάσχειν.

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.) — 77 focus

For, says he, the enemy has said, "I will pursue and take captive." Who, then, could be a more determined enemy to the soul than he who out of arrogance appropriated the especial attributes of the Deity to himself? Now it is an especial attribute of God to create, and this faculty it is impious to ascribe to any created being.

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