Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 104

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[104] 28 Ἐργάσεται διὰ τοῦτο τὴν γῆν (Gen. 4, 12), οὐ γεωργήσει· γεωργὸς μὲν γὰρ πᾶς τεχνίτης, ὅτι τέχνη καὶ ἡ γεωργία, πολλοὶ δὲ τῶν ἰδιωτῶν γεωπόνοι τὴν ἄνευ ἐμπειρίας ἕνεκα τῶν ἀναγκαίων μετιόντες
ὑπηρεσίαν· οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ἐν οἷς δρῶσι πολλὰ βλάπτουσιν ἐπιστάτου μὴ τυχόντες· ἃ δ’ ἂν καὶ εὖ ἐργάσωνται, κατὰ τύχην, οὐ σὺν λόγῳ, κατορθοῦσι· τὰ δὲ τῶν γεωργῶν τὰ μετ’ ἐπιστήμης ἐνεργούμενα πάντ’ ἐστὶν ἐξ ἀνάγκης ὠφέλιμα.

Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 104 focus

"On this account shall he cultivate the earth;" ¹ he does not say, "He shall become a farmer." For every farmer is an artist, because farming is an art. But any of the common people are cultivators of the earth, giving their service to provide themselves with necessaries, without any skill. These men, then, as they have no superintendent in all that they do, do much harm; and whatever they do well they do by chance, and not in accordance with reason. But the works of farmers, which are performed according to knowledge, are all of them, of necessity, useful.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 104

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