Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 60

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[60] χρῆσις γὰρ καὶ ἀπόλαυσις ἀρετῆς τὸ εὔδαιμον, οὐ ψιλὴ μόνον κτῆσις· χρῆσθαι δ’ οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην, εἰ μὴ σὺ καθεὶς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τὰ σπέρματα ἀπεργάσαιο
αὐτὴν ἐγκύμονα, ἡ δὲ εὐδαιμονίας γένος ἀποτέκοι τὸν Ἰσαάκ — εὐδαιμονίαν δὲ χρῆσιν ἀρετῆς τελείας ἐν βίῳ τελείῳ νενόηκα —. παρὸ καὶ τῆς προαιρέσεως ἀγάμενος αὐτὸν ὁμολογεῖ τελεσφορήσειν καιρίως ἃ

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.) — 60 focus

[60] For it is the use and enjoyment of virtue that is happiness, and not the bare possession of it. But I should not be able to use it unless you, by letting down the seeds from heaven, had yourself made virtue pregnant; and unless she had brought forth the germs of happiness, namely, Isaac. And I consider that happiness is the employment of perfect virtue in a perfect life. In reference to which he, approving of his own determination, promises that he will complete perfectly all that he asked.

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