Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 81

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[81] καὶ μὴν τῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑποθέσεων ἄκρως εἴωθε διαμεμνῆσθαι, τὰ ἀκόλουθα καὶ ὁμολογούμενα τοῖς προτέροις
δικαιῶν ἐφαρμόττειν· οὐκ ἂν οὖν πνεῦμα ψυχῆς οὐσίαν προειπὼν αἷμα διαφέρον σῶμά τι αὖθις ἔλεγεν, εἰ μὴ πρός τι τῶν ἀναγκαιοτάτων καὶ συνεκτικωτάτων τὴν ἀναφορὰν ἐποιεῖτο. τί οὖν λεκτέον;

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.) — 81 focus

[81] And, indeed, he is accustomed diligently to record all the suggestions and purposes of God from the beginning, thinking it right to adopt his subsequent statements to aid to make them consistent with his first accounts. Therefore, after he had previously stated the breath to be the essence of the life, he would not subsequently have spoken of the blood as occupying the most important place in the body, unless he had been making a reference to some very necessary and comprehensive principle.

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