Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 140

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[140] ἀστεῖοι μὲν οὖν χαρὰν καὶ ἐλπίδα
κλῆρον λαχόντες εὐδαίμονα ἢ ἐχέτωσαν ἢ προσδοκάτωσαν πάντως ἀγαθά· φαῦλοι δ’, ὧν Κάιν ἐστὶ θιασώτης, ἐν λύπαις καὶ φόβοις ὄντες ἢ μετουσίαν ἢ προσδοκίαν κακῶν ἀργαλεωτάτην μερίδα καρπούσθωσαν, ἐπὶ μὲν τοῖς ἐν χερσὶν ὀδυνηροῖς στένοντες, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖς προσδοκωμένοις φοβεροῖς τρέμοντές τε καὶ φρίττοντες (cf. Gen.
4, 12).

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.) — 140 focus

[140] Let good men, then, by all means having received joy and hope for their blessed inheritance, either possess or expect good things: but let bad men, of whom Cain is a companion, living in fear and pain, reap a harvest of a most bitter portion, namely, either the presence or the expectation of evils, groaning over the miseries which are actually oppressing them, and trembling and shuddering at the expected fearful dangers.

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