Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 93

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[93] ὁ δὲ ἅτε ἀγαθὸς ὢν καὶ ἵλεως τοὺς ἱκέτας οὐκ ἀποστρέφεται, καὶ μάλισθ’ ὅταν ἐπὶ τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις ἔργοις καὶ πάθεσι
στενάζοντες ἀψευδῶς καὶ ἀπλάστως ἐκβοῶσι· τότε γὰρ ἀναβαίνειν φησὶ Μωυσῆς τοὺς λόγους αὐτῶν πρὸς τὸν θεόν (Exod. 2, 23), τὸν δὲ ἐπακούσαντα ῥύεσθαι τῶν παρεστώτων κακῶν·

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.) — 93 focus

[93] But he, as a good and merciful God, does not reject his suppliants, and most especially he does not, when they, groaning at the Egyptian deeds and passions, cry to him in sincerity and truth. For at such a time Moses says that, "their words go up to God," ¹ and that he listens to them, and delivers them from the evils that surround them.

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