Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 46

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[46] καὶ γὰρ ἀφόρητόν τινα ἀπειλὴν ἐπανατείνεται φάσκων· „ἐγγισάτωσαν αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ πένθους τοῦ πατρός μου, ἵνα ἀποκτείνω Ἰακὼβ τὸν ἀδελφόν μου“ (Gen. 27, 41)· εὔχεται γὰρ τὸ μόνον ἀπαθὲς εἶδος ἐν γενέσει τὸν Ἰσαάκ, ᾧ χρησμός ἐστι „μὴ
καταβῆναι εἰς Αἴγυπτον“ (Gen. 26, 2), ἀλόγῳ πάθει χρῆσθαι, ἵνα, δοκῶ, ¹ ἡδονῆς ἢ λύπης ἤ τινος ἄλλου πάθους κέντροις τρωθῇ, δηλῶν ὡς ὁ ἀτελέστερος καὶ ἐπιπόνῳ προκοπῇ χρώμενος οὐ τραῦμα μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ παντελῆ φθορὰν δέξεται· ὁ μέντοι χρηστὸς θεὸς οὔτε ἁλωτὸν πάθει τὸ ἀτρώτου γένους εἶδος ἐργάσεται οὔτε τὴν ἀρετῆς ἄσκησιν ἐπ’ ὀλέθρῳ
φονῶντι καὶ δαιμονῶντι ἐκδώσει.

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.) — 46 focus

[46] for Esau had been holding out an intolerable threat over Jacob, saying, "The days of mourning for my Father are at hand, that then I may slay my brother Jacob;" ¹ for he is wishing only that that species in the nature of things which is void of passions, namely, Isaac (to whom the oracle had been given, that he should not descend into Egypt), ² may be the victim of an irrational affection, in order I suppose that he may be wounded by the stings of pleasure or pain, or of any other passion, showing that the man who is not wholly perfect ³⁴ and who makes laborious improvements, will receive not merely a wound, but utter destruction. However, the good God will neither allow that invulnerable species among created things to be subdued by passion, nor will he surrender the practise of virtue to bloody and raging destruction.

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Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat

1.
1 ἡσυχίας DR ἀσφαλείᾳ D γῆρας D εὑρήσει D
2 προελθὼν DR δὲ D ὡς Ἄβελ om. D διερηρεῖσθαι scripsi: διηρεῖσθαι DR, διαιρεῖσθαι UDC, διερείσασθαι FHL
4 οὔτ’ ἀληθῆ HL
6 αἰτίων codd.
8 εἰσιᾶσιν F
9 ἀσκηταὶ FL: ἀσκηταῖς U, ἀσκοῦντες U
10 παίδευμα καλὸν UF; καλὸν παίδευμα HL ἐπιτήδευμα coni. Wendl.
12 ἀπόνοιαν γὰρ UF: γὰρ om. HL
13 ἐπιδείκνυνται scripsi: ἐπιδεικνύντες UF, ἐπιδεικνύντας ΗL ἐκεῖνοι Η ὑγιάζοντας U 13.
14 ψυχῆς νόσους Μang.: ψυχὰς νόσους UL, ψυχὰς ὅσους H, νόσους (om. ψυχῆς) F
14 μέχρι U
15 ἄριστον ἑρμηνέα F: ἑρμηνέα ἄριστον UHL
18 ἐρειστικὸν Η
20 Ἠσαῦ τοῦ] εἰς αὐτοὺς U ἀποκτενεῖν add. Wendl.
21 μέχρι U
22 ἀπορῆτον H, ἀπόρρητον L 22.
23 ἐπανατείνεται φάσκων ἀπειλήν transp. F
23 πένθους HL: πάθους UF
24 ἶνα—μου om. UL
25 τὸ μόνον F: μόνον τὸ HL, τὸ om. U
26 εἰς] τὴν UF ἴνα L: εἶναι UFH

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