Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 170

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[170] ὁπότε γοῦν τὴν γῆν ὕδατι καθαίρειν ὁ δημιουργὸς διενοήθη καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν τῶν ἀμυθήτων ἀδικημάτων κάθαρσιν λαβεῖν
ἐκνιψαμένην καὶ ἀπολουσαμένην τὰ μιάσματα τρόπον ἁγνείας ἱερᾶς, παραινεῖ τῷ φανέντι δικαίῳ, ὃς οὐ παρεσύρη τῇ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ φορᾷ, εἰσάγειν εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν, ὅπερ ἦν τὸ ψυχῆς ἀγγεῖον τὸ σῶμα, „ἀπὸ τῶν κτηνῶν τῶν καθαρῶν ἑπτά, ἄρρεν καὶ θῆλυ“ (Gen. 7, 2), δικαιώσας τὸν ἀστεῖον λογισμὸν χρῆσθαι μέρεσι τοῖς τοῦ ἀλόγου πᾶσι καθαροῖς.

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.) — 170 focus

[170] At all events, when the Creator determined to purify the earth by means of water, and that the soul should receive purification of all its unspeakable offences, having washed off and effaced its pollutions after the fashion of a holy purification, he recommended him who was found to be a just man, who was not borne away by the violence of the deluge, to enter into the ark, that is to say, into the vessel containing the soul, namely, the body, and to lead into it "seven of all clean beasts, male and female," ¹ thinking it proper that virtuous reason should employ all the pure parts of the irrational portion of man.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 170

ed. Leopold Cohn

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