Philo Judaeus De Gigantibus 28

ed. Paul Wendland

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[28] 7 διὸ δὴ πνεῦμα θεῖον μένειν μὲν δυνατὸν ἐν ψυχῇ, διαμένειν δὲ ἀδύνατον, ὡς εἴπομεν.
καὶ τί θαυμάζομεν; οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄλλου τὸ παράπαν οὐδενὸς ἐχυρὰ καὶ βέβαιος ἐγγίνεται κτῆσις ἀντιρρεπόντων καὶ πρὸς ἑκάτερα ταλαντευόντων τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων καὶ ἄλλοτε ἀλλοίας ἐνδεχομένων μεταβολάς.

De Gigantibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Gigantibus (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Giants First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 28 focus

On which account, it is possible that the spirit of God may remain in the soul, but that it should remain for ever is impossible, as we have said. And why need we wonder? since there is no other thing whatever, the possession of which, is stable and lasting; but mortal affairs are continually wavering in the scale, and inclining first to one side, and then to the other, and liable at different times to different changes.

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