Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 92

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[92] τῆς οὖν ζωτικῆς δυνάμεως, ἧς τὸ οὐσιῶδες αἷμα, μοῖρά τις ἐξαίρετον ἔσχε γέρας φωνὴν καὶ λόγον, οὐ τὸ διὰ στόματος
καὶ γλώττης ῥέον νᾶμα, ἀλλὰ τὴν πηγήν, ἀφ’ ἧς αἱ τοῦ προφορικοῦ δεξαμεναὶ πληροῦσθαι πεφύκασιν· ἡ δὲ πηγὴ νοῦς ἐστι, δι’ οὗ τὰς πρὸς τὸν ὄντα ἐντεύξεις καὶ ἐκβοήσεις τῇ μὲν ἑκόντες τῇ δὲ καὶ ἄκοντες ἀναφθεγγόμεθα.

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.) — 92 focus

[92] Of our vivifying power, therefore, of which the blood is, as it were, the essence, one portion has particular honour, namely, that of speech and reason; I do not mean the stream which flows through the mouth and tongue, but I speak of the fountain itself, from which the channels of utterance are, in the course of nature, filled. And this fountain is the mind; by means of which, all our conversations with and cries to the living God take place, at one time being voluntary, and at another involuntary.

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