Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 70

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[70] μὲν γάρ, ὡς καὶ πρότερον ἔφην, ὁ τεθνάναι δοκῶν, εἴ γε καὶ ἱκέτης ὢν θεοῦ καὶ φωνῇ χρώμενος εὑρίσκεται, τέθνηκε
δὲ ὁ περιεῖναι νομιζόμενος τὸν ψυχικὸν θάνατον, ἀρετῆς καθ’ ἣν ἄξιον μόνην ἐστὶ ζῆν ἀποσχοινισθείς· ὥστε καὶ τὸ „τί ἐποίησας“ ἴσον εἶναι τῷ „οὐδὲν ἐποίησας“, οὐδὲν ἤνυσας.

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.) — 70 focus

[70] For, as I have said before, he who appears to be dead is alive, inasmuch as he is found to be a suppliant of God and to utter a voice; and he who believes that he is still alive is dead, as to the death of the soul, inasmuch as he is excluded from virtue, according to which alone he is worthy to live. So that the expression, "What hast thou done?" is equivalent to, "Thou hast done nothing; thou hast done no good for thyself."

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