Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 139

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[139] διὸ καὶ προειπὼν ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἐνὼς ὅτι „οὗτος ἤλπισεν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ“, ῥητῶς ἐπιφέρει· „αὕτη ἡ¹² βίβλος γενέσεως ἀνθρώπων“ (Gen. 5, 1), σπουδαιολογῶν· ἐγγράφεται γὰρ τῇ θεοῦ βίβλῳ, ὅτι μόνος εὔελπις ἄνθρωπος, ὥστε κατὰ τὰ ἐναντία ὁ δύσελπις οὐκ ἄνθρωπος. ὅρος οὖν τοῦ μὲν συγκρίματος ἡμῶν ζῷον λογικὸν θνητόν ἐστι, τοῦ δὲ κατὰ Μωυσῆν ἀνθρώπου διάθεσις ψυχῆς ἐπὶ τὸν ὄντως ὄντα θεὸν ἐλπιζούσης.

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.) — 139 focus

[139] On which account Moses, after he had previously mentioned with respect to Enos that "he hoped to call upon the name of the Lord his God," adds in express words, "This is the book of the generation of men;" ¹ speaking with perfect correctness: for it is written in the book of God that man is the only creature with a good hope. So that arguing by contraries, he who has no good hope is not a man. The definition, therefore, of our concrete being is that it is a living rational mortal being; but the definition of man, according to Moses, is a disposition of the soul hoping in the truly living God.

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Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat

1.
1 ἀνθρώπω UF: ἀνθρώπων HL
2 οὔτε ἐπὶ D: ἢ codd. λαμπρότητα H
3 ἀψύχων] ψυχρῶν D, τυχηρῶν coni. Maag. ὄντων] ἔργων HL ἐξ αὐτῶν HLDPDR
4 χαίρειν om. HL ἔνεστι] ἐστί D
5 τοῦ σώματος DRDV καὶ post ἁ oia. L
6 ἤνεγκαν D ἐπεὶ] ἐπὶ UF οὖν ἐν om. UF, ἐν om. H ἔ τῆς om. F χαρὰ] φθορὰ HL1
8 αὐτόν codd.: αὑτόν v
9 ἐν αὐτῷ coni. Wendl.
10 αὐτὸν codd.: αὑτὸν v ἡ utrumque om. UF
11 μεγαλαυχοτέον H
13 Μωϋσέος FH ἴδιον δὲ H ἐπιδείξωμεν UF: ἐπιδείξομεν HL
15 Ἑνὼς UH ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ ἄνθρωπος scripsi et ante ἐλπίς lacunam indicavi ἔλαχεν ἐλπίς coni. Wendl.) οὕτος] ὅτι Γ’
17 ἀνθρώπων H τῷ] τὸ U
19 τουτέστιν codd. ἡ] ἡ F
21 ’Evcbs U
22 ἡ addidi

2. 1—6 DK fol. 70r Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ ζ΄ καὶ η΄ τῶν νόμων ἱερῶν ἀλληγορίας) D? fol. 55r DM fol. 56v DR fol. 67r Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ τῆς τῶν νόμων ἱερῶν ἀλληγορίας) DV p. 326 Mel. Barocc. fol. 93v Φίλωνος): κυρίως οὔτε ἐπὶ χρημάτων — ὄλεθρον ἀπαραίτητον ἤνεγκαν διὰ τὸ ἀσύστατον καὶ ἀβέβαιον. Philonis opera vol. I 19

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