Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 85

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[85] μόνον γὰρ δὴ τῶν ἐπὶ γῆς φυτὸν οὐράνιον ὁ θεὸς ἄνθρωπον εἰργάσατο, τῶν μὲν ἄλλων τὰς κεφαλὰς πηξάμενος ἐν χέρσῳ — κατωκάρα γὰρ πάντα —, ἀνθρώπου δὲ εἰς τὸ ἄνω προαγαγών, ἵνα τὰς τροφὰς ὀλυμπίους καὶ ἀφθάρτους ἀλλὰ μὴ γεώδεις καὶ φθαρτὰς ἔχοι·
παρὸ καὶ τοῦ σώματος ἡμῶν τὸ μὲν ὅσον ἀναισθητότατον πλεῖστον ἀποστήσας λογισμοῦ τὰς βάσεις γῇ προσερρίζου, τὰς δὲ νοῦ δορυφόρους αἰσθήσεις καὶ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον πορρωτάτω μὲν τῶν περὶ γῆν ἐξῴκισε, ταῖς δὲ p. 208 M. ἀέρος καὶ οὐρανοῦ περιόδοις ἀφθάρτοις οὔσαις ἐνεδήσατο.

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.) — 85 focus

[85] For God made man, the only heavenly plant of those which he placed upon the earth, fastening the heads of the others in the mainland, for all of them bend their heads downwards;" ¹ but the face of man he has exalted and directed upwards, that it might have its food of a heavenly and incorruptible nature, and not earthly and perishable. With a view to which, he also rooted in the earth the foundations of our body, removing the most insensible part of it as far as possible from reason; and the outward senses, which are as it were the body-guards of the mind, and the mind itself, he established at a great distance from the earth, and from all things connected with it, and bound it with the periodical revolutions of the air and of the heavens, which are imperishable.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 85

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