Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 156

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[156] 43 μήποτ’ οὖν ὅπερ ἐμφαίνεται διὰ τοῦ „εἰ ἐκβάλλεις με σήμερον ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου κρυβήσομαι“ τοῦτ’ ἐστίν· εἰ μὴ παρέχεις μοι τὰ γῆς ἀγαθά, οὐδὲ τὰ οὐρανοῦ δέχομαι· καὶ εἰ μή τίς ἐστι χρῆσις καὶ ἀπόλαυσις ἡδονῆς,
καὶ ἀρετὴν παραιτοῦμαι· καὶ εἰ τῶν ἀνθρωπείων μὴ μεταδίδως ἀγαθῶν, ἔχε καὶ τὰ θεῖα.

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.) — 156 focus

Perhaps now that which is intimated by the expression, "If thou castest me out this day from off the face of the earth, from thy face I shall be hidden," may be this, if thou dost not bestow on me the good things of the earth, I will not receive those of Heaven; and if no use and enjoyment of pleasure is afforded me, I have no desire for virtue, and if thou dost not allow me to participate in human advantages, thou mayest retain the divine ones to thyself.

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