Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 84

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[84] αὐτοῦ κτήματα. 25 καὶ ὡς μεγαλοπρεπῶς ἅμα καὶ θεοπρεπῶς διεξέρχεται περὶ τούτων, κατανοήσωμεν τὸ „ὅλα μου, φησίν, ἐστίν“. ὅλα
δ’ ἐστὶν ἅ φησι „δῶρα καὶ δόματα καὶ καρπώματα, ἃ διατηροῦντες ¹² προσοίσετε ἐν ταῖς ἐμαῖς ἑορταῖς ἐμοί“ (Num. 28, 2), πάνυ ἐκδήλως παριστὰς ὅτι τῶν ὄντων τὰ μὲν χάριτος μέσης ἠξίωται, ἣ καλεῖται δόσις, τὰ δὲ ἀμείνονος, ἧς ὄνομα οἰκεῖον δωρεά, τὰ δὲ τοιαῦτα γέγονεν, ὡς μὴ μόνον δύνασθαι καρποφορεῖν ἀρετάς, ἀλλὰ καὶ δι’ ὅλων ἤδη πεφυκέναι
καρπὸς ἐδώδιμος, ᾧ μόνῳ ψυχὴ τοῦ φιλοθεάμονος τρέφεται.

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.)

Translations (1)

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.) — 84 focus

And let us now consider with what magnificent fitness and with what divine majesty he speaks of these things. Let us consider the expression, "All things are mine," and "all things" mean as he says, "gifts, and offerings, and fruits of labour, which, on watching carefully, he will bring to me on the days of my festivals." ¹ Showing, very manifestly, that of all existing things some are thought worthy of moderate grace which is called an offering, and some of that higher grace which is called by the appropriate name of a free gift. And these things again are of such a nature that they are able, not only to bring forth virtues as their fruit, but that good fruit and eatable does actually pervade the whole of them, by which alone the soul of him who loves contemplation is supported;

Notes on the current edition

De Cherubim

1.
1 ὃ addidi
2 καὶ ἢ AP, καὶ om. F ἀγωνιζομένου AP
4 τυπτηθῆναι UF φυλάττεται UF περὶ δακτύλοις F δακτύλοις] δικτύοις Η
5 καὶ πρὸς UF : καὶ om. ceteri αὐτὸν MGUF ἐπάρας AP
6 φέρει UF ἀναγκάσαι UF
7 τι scripsi: τινὶ codd. παραπλήσια F ἡ ὁ χαλκὸς om. AP χαλκεὺς F
8 ὑπερίπταται UF διατιθεὶς] διανοηθεὶς UF
9 σώματι] ὄμ ματι APUF
10 ποτὲ δεξώμεθα transp. UF
11 καθάπερ — παρειμένοι] θηλυδρίαι καθάπερ καὶ τεθλασμένοι καὶ παράνομοι καὶ παρεπόμενοι UF
13 τοῖς GH: ταῖς AP, τὰς M, τοῖς τῆς UF διανοίαις AP τόνοις om. AP ἐπικουφίζειν καὶ ἐπελαφρίζειν transp. UF
14 ἐπαρτωμένων Α, ἀπαρτωμένων UF
16 ὀνομάζονται D: νομίζονται codd.
17 γένοιτο δ’ ἄν UF ὁ om. F
18 εἷς om. UF ἣν] ἐστὶ U, ἐστὶν F 19.
20 διεξέρχεται ἄμα καὶ θεοπρεπῶς transp. U
20 κατανοήσωμεν: νοήσωμεν:— hic desinunt UF; addit U subscriptionem φίλωνος περὶ τῶν Χερουβὶμ τῆς φλογίνης ῥομφαίας: τὸ — ἅ φησι (21) in lacuna om. M, τὸ ὅλα μου, φησίν, ἐστίν om. AP
21 ἅ φησι] ἄφεσιν· ἀλλ’ οὐ AP δόματα] δόγματα GH

2.
15 —
16 Dv p. 434 Anton. Mel. II
21 Col. 1064 Φίλωνος: οἱ λεγόμενοι δεσπόται δόξῃ μόνον, οὐ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν, ὀνομάζονται.

Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 84

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