Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 3

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[3] ἀλλήλοις οἱ ἐχθροί, γένοιντ’ ἄν. 2 σημεῖον δὲ μέγιστον, ὁ ἀσκητὴς ἐπιστήμης τὴν ἐναντίαν διάθεσιν πολεμῶν ἀμαθίαν, ὅταν τὰς ἐν ψυχῇ δυνάμεις ἀλόγους τρόπον τινὰ ποιμαίνῃ νουθετῶν καὶ σωφρονίζων, ἐν
πεδίῳ θεωρεῖται· „ἀποστείλας γὰρ Ἰακὼβ ἐκάλεσε Λείαν καὶ Ῥαχὴλ εἰς τὸ πεδίον, οὗ τὰ ποίμνια“ (Gen. 31, 4), παριστὰς ἐναργῶς ὅτι φιλονεικίας σημεῖον τὸ πεδίον p. 192 M ἐστί. καλεῖ δὲ αὐτὰς διὰ τί;

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.) — 3 focus

And a very great proof of this is the conduct of the practiser of knowledge, Jacob, when warring against the opposite disposition, ignorance; when it is beheld in the field how he regulates the irrational faculties in the soul after a fashion, reproving and correcting them. "For Jacob having sent, called Leah and Rachel into the plain where the flocks were;" ¹

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