Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 146

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[146] 40 ἱκετεύωμεν οὖν τὸν θεὸν οἱ συνειδήσει τῶν οἰκείων ἀδικημάτων ἐλεγχόμενοι, κολάσαι μᾶλλον ἡμᾶς ἢ παρεῖναι· παρεὶς μὲν γὰρ οὐκέτι τοῦ ἵλεω δούλους ἑαυτοῦ, γενέσεως δὲ τῆς ἀνηλεοῦς ἀπεργάσεται, κολάζων δὲ ἐπιεικῶς τε καὶ πρᾴως ἅτε
χρηστὸς ὢν ἐπανορθώσεται τὰ ἁμαρτήματα, τὸν σωφρονιστὴν ἔλεγχον, τὸν ἑαυτοῦ λόγον, εἰς τὴν διάνοιαν ἐκπέμψας, δι’ οὗ δυσωπήσας καὶ ὀνειδίσας περὶ ὧν ἐπλημμέλησεν αὐτὴν ἰάσεται.

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.) — 146 focus

Let us, therefore, address our supplications to God, we who are self-convicted by our consciousness of our own sins, to chastise us rather than to abandon us; for if he abandons us, he will no longer make us his servants, who is a merciful master, but slaves of a pitiless generation: but if he chastises us in a gentle and merciful manner, as a kind ruler, he will correct our offences, sending that correcting conviction, his own word, into our hearts, by means of which he will heal them; reproving us and making us ashamed of the wickednesses which we have committed.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 146

ed. Leopold Cohn

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