Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 17

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[17] 7 τὸν Ἰωσὴφ οὖν ὅλον εἰς τὰς τοῦ σώματος καὶ τῶν αἰσθήσεων κοιλότητας εἰσδεδυκότα ὁρῶν προκαλεῖται τῶν φωλεῶν ἔξω προελθόντα ἐλευθέρου σπάσαι τοῦ καρτερίας πνεύματος φοιτήσαντα πρὸς τοὺς πάλαι
μὲν ἀσκητὰς νυνὶ δὲ διδασκάλους αὐτῆς. ὁ δὲ προεληλυθέναι δόξας πλανώμενος εὑρίσκεται· „εὗρε“ γάρ φησιν „αὐτὸν ἄνθρωπος p. 195 M πλανώμενον ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ“ (Gen. 37, 15), δηλῶν ὅτι οὐχ ὁ πόνος καθ’ αὑτὸν ἀλλ’ ὁ μετὰ τέχνης ἀγαθόν.

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.) — 17 focus

Seeing therefore that Joseph has wholly entered into the hollow valleys of the body and of the outward senses, he invites him to come forth out of his holes, and to bring forward the free air of perseverance, going as a pupil to those who were formerly practisers of it themselves, and who are now become teachers of it; but he who appears to himself to have made progress in this, is found to be in error; "For a man," says the holy scripture, "found him wandering in the plain," ¹ showing that it is not labour by itself, intrinsically considered, but labour with skill, that is good.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 17

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