Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 58

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[58] τί οὖν καὶ ἀποκρίσεως ὄφελος μὴ μελλούσης τινὰ περιποιεῖν τῷ πυνθανομένῳ κατάληψιν; ἀλλὰ ῥητέον, ὅτι τοιαῦτα οὐ πέφυκεν ἐπὶ τοῦ αἰτίου κυριολογεῖσθαι, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ψεῦδος λέγειν ἔστι μὴ ψευδόμενον, οὕτως καὶ ἐρώτημα καὶ πύσμα προφέρεσθαι μήτε ἐρωτῶντα μήτε πυνθανόμενον. τίνος οὖν ἕνεκα, φήσει τις ἴσως, λέγεται
τοιαῦτα; ἵν’ ἡ μέλλουσα τὰς ἀποκρίσεις ποιεῖσθαι ψυχὴ δι’ ἑαυτῆς ἐλέγχηται περὶ ὧν εὖ ἢ κακῶς ἀποφαίνεται, μήτε κατηγόρῳ μήτε συναγωνιστῇ χρωμένη ἑτέρῳ.

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.) — 58 focus

[58] What need, then, has he of an answer which cannot give any additional knowledge to the questioner? But we must say that such things cannot properly be uttered by the Cause of all things, but that, as it is possible to say what is not true without lying, so it is possible for one to put a question or an interrogatory without either making inquiry or seeking for information. "Why, then," some one will say, "are such words spoken?" In order that the soul which is about to give the answer may prove by itself what it answers correctly or incorrectly, having no one else either as an accuser or an adversary.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 58

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