Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 80

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[80] πολλαχοῦ μὲν γὰρ τῆς νομοθεσίας οὐσίαν τῆς ψυχῆς ἀποφαίνεται τὸ αἷμα λέγων ἄντικρυς· „ἡ γὰρ ψυχὴ πάσης σαρκὸς αἷμά ἐστιν“ (Lev. 17, 11 al.)· ὁπότε δὲ πρῶτον μετὰ τὴν οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς
καὶ τῶν μεταξὺ γένεσιν ἐδημιούργει p. 207 M. τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὁ ζῳοπλάστης, φησὶν ὅτι „ἐνεφύσησεν εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πνεῦμα ζωῆς, καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἄνθρωπος εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν“ (Gen. 2, 7), πάλιν διὰ τούτου παριστάς, ὅτι πνεῦμά ἐστιν ἡ ψυχῆς οὐσία.

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.) — 80 focus

[80] for in many places of the law as given by Moses, he pronounces the blood to be the essence of the soul or of life, saying distinctly, "For the life of all flesh is the blood thereof." ¹ And when the Creator of all living things first began to make man, after the creation of the heaven and the earth, and all the things which are between the two, Moses says, "And he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul," showing again by this expression that it is the breath which ² is the essence of the life.

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