Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 8

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[8] καθάπερ γὰρ μήτε πῦρ μήτε γῆν μήτε τι τῶν τεττάρων, ἐξ ὧν
ἐδημιουργήθη τὸ πᾶν, κόσμον εἶναι, τὴν δὲ τῶν στοιχείων εἰς ταὐτὸ σύνοδόν τε καὶ κρᾶσιν, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ τὸ εὔδαιμον μήτε ἐν τοῖς ἐκτὸς ἰδίᾳ μήτε ἐν τοῖς περὶ σῶμα μήτε ἐν τοῖς περὶ ψυχὴν καθ’ αὑτὰ ἐξετάζεσθαι — τῶν γὰρ εἰρημένων ἕκαστον μερῶν τινα καὶ στοιχείων

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.) — 8 focus

[8] In the same way, as neither fire, nor earth, nor any one of the four elements, out of which the universe was created, are the world, but the meeting and mixture of all the elements together; in the same way also happiness ought not peculiarly to be sought for either in the external things, or in the things of the body, or in the things of the soul, taken by themselves; for each of the aforementioned things has only the rank of parts and elements, but it must be looked for in the combination of them all together.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 8

ed. Leopold Cohn

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