Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 64

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[64] οὐκοῦν τῷ μὲν ἡμίσει τὴν τελειότητα — τέλειος γὰρ ὁ πεντηκοστὸς λόγος, ὁ δὲ τῶν πέντε καὶ εἴκοσιν ἥμισυ μέρος — ἐνεργεῖν ἐπιτρέπει καὶ δρᾶν τὰ ἅγια
τὴν δι’ ἔργων ἀρέσκειαν ἐπιδεικνυμένῳ — ἀρχὴ δέ, ὡς ἔφη τις τῶν πάλαι, τοῦ παντὸς ἥμισυ μέρος —, τῷ δὲ τελείῳ μηκέτι πονεῖν, τὰ δ’ ὅσα ἐκ μελέτης καὶ πόνου περιεποιήσατο φυλάττειν· μὴ γὰρ γενοίμην ἀσκητὴς ὧν μὴ φύλαξ αὖθις.

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.) — 64 focus

[64] Therefore, the Scripture charges him who has half perfection (for the number fifty is perfect, and the number twenty-five is the half of fifty), to work and to do what is holy, approving his ministration by his works. And the beginning, as an old writer has said, is half of the whole. But the perfect man it does not enjoin to labour any longer, but only to preserve what he has acquired by labour and diligence. For ¹ may I never become a practiser of what I ought not to be a preserver;

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