Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 27

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[27] 9 διὸ καὶ ἀποκρίνεται ὀρθῶς ὁ τὴν ἀπάτην ἰδὼν ἄνθρωπος· „ἀπήρκασιν
ἐντεῦθεν“ (Gen. 37, 17). δείκνυσι δὲ τὸν σωματικὸν ὄγκον δηλῶν ὅτι πάντες, οἷς ὑπὲρ κτήσεως ἀρετῆς πόνος διαθλεῖται, τὸν περίγειον καταλελοιπότες χῶρον μετεωροπολεῖν ἐγνώκασιν οὐδεμίαν τῶν σωματικῶν ἐφελκόμενοι κηρῶν· καὶ γὰρ λεγόντων ἀκηκοέναι φησὶν αὐτῶν·

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.) — 27 focus

[27] And he shows here the mass of the body; clearly proving that all those by whom labour is practised for the sake of the acquisition of virtue, having left the regions of earth, have determined on contemplating only what is sublime, dragging with them no stain of the body. For he says, too, that he had heard them say,

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