Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 133

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[133] μὴ γάρ ποτε φαύλου λόγος ἑρμηνεὺς γένοιτο δογμάτων θείων — τὸ γὰρ κάλλος αὐτῶν οἰκείοις μιάσμασιν αἰσχύνει —, μηδ’ ἔμπαλιν σπουδαίου προφορᾷ τὰ ἀκόλαστα καὶ αἰσχρὰ μηνύοιτο, ἀλλ’
ἀεὶ τὴν τῶν ἁγίων διήγησιν ἱεροὶ καὶ ἅγιοι ποιείσθωσαν λόγοι.

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.) — 133 focus

[133] For never may the speech of a wicked man be interpreter of divine doctrines, for such an one would deform their beauty by his own pollutions; and, on the other hand, may what is intemperate and disgraceful never be related by the utterance of a virtuous man, but may sacred and holy conversations always deliver the relation of holy things.

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