Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 122

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[122] πέφυκε γὰρ ἡ δικαιοσύνη πρῶτον μὲν ἀνάπαυλαν ποιεῖν ἀντὶ καμάτου τὰ μεθόρια
κακίας καὶ ἀρετῆς ἐξαδιαφοροῦσα, πλοῦτον καὶ δόξαν καὶ ἀρχὰς καὶ ¹ τιμὰς καὶ ὅσα τούτων ἀδελφά, περὶ ἃ πραγματεύεται τὸ πλεῖστον ἀνθρώπων γένος, ἔπειτα λύπας ἀναιρεῖν, αἳ συνίστανται κατὰ τὰς ἐξ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν ἐνεργείας — οὐ γάρ, ὡς ἔνιοι τῶν ἀσεβῶν, τὸν θεὸν αἴτιον κακῶν φησι Μωυσῆς, ἀλλὰ τὰς ἡμετέρας χεῖρας, συμβολικῶς τὰ ἡμέτερα παριστὰς ἐγχειρήματα καὶ τὰς ἑκουσίους τῆς διανοίας πρὸς τὸ
χεῖρον τροπάς —, 33 ἐπὶ πᾶσι μέντοι „ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἧς κατηράσατο κύριος ὁ θεὸς“ διαναπαύειν·

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.) — 122 focus

[122] for it is the nature of justice in the first place to cause rest instead of labour, being utterly indifferent to the things that are in the confines between wickedness and virtue, riches and glory, and power and honour, and all other things which are akin to these, which are the chief objects of the energies of the human race. And, in the second place, to destroy those pains which exist in accordance with our own energies; for Moses does not (as some wicked men do) say, that God is the cause of evils, but our own hands; indicating, by a figurative expression, the ¹² works of our hands, and the voluntary inclinations of our mind to the worser part. 33 Last of all, Noah is said "to comfort us concerning our work, because of the ground which the Lord God hath cursed." ³

Notes on the current edition

Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat

1.
2 πέτραν] τροφὴν coni. Mang.
4 δ’ HL
5 γίνεται U
7 ἁψικόρως FH
9 ἐλλαμβανομένοις UF: ἐλλαβομένοις HL
11 δ’ F οὐδὲν Mang.: οὐδὲ codd. προστίθησιν U
12 auxrjvMang.: αὐτῆς codd. πραγματευομένων L corr.
15 τεσσάρων L ὀδυνηρότατα coni. Mang.
17 ἡ μέλλειν κακὸν transp. U
18 λύπην] φόβον H
20 ἀγαθὸν F
21 ἀποτελεῖ] αὐτοτελῆ F corr.
22 τροφὸν H μεθιέμενοι H: μεθιέμεν οἱ UFL
23 ἡ U
24 ἀποκεκύηκε UF: ἀποκεκύηται HL δικαιοσύνην codd., corr. Turn.
25 ταύτης Mang.: ταύτη codd.

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