Philo Judaeus, De Gigantibus, ed. Paul Wendland, 37

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[37] μαθέτωσαν δὴ πάντες οὗτοι μηδενὶ προσέρχεσθαι γνώμῃ τῶν εἰρημένων, τοῦτο δέ ἐστι μὴ θαυμάζειν αὐτὰ καὶ ἀποδέχεσθαι πλέον τοῦ μετρίου κρίνοντας ἕκαστον αὐτῶν οὐκ p. 268 M. ἀγαθὸν [μόνον], ἀλλὰ καὶ μέγιστον κακόν, τὰ χρήματα, τὴν
δόξαν, τὴν σωμάτων δύναμιν. φιλαργύροις μὲν γὰρ ἡ πρὸς ἀργύριον, φιλοδόξοις δὲ ἡ πρὸς δόξαν, φιλάθλοις δὲ καὶ φιλογυμνασταῖς ἡ πρὸς ἰσχὺν πρόσοδος οἰκεία· τὸ γὰρ ἄμεινον, ψυχήν, τοῖς χείροσιν ἐκδεδώκασιν, ἀψύχοις. ὅσοι δὲ ἐντὸς ἑαυτῶν εἰσι,

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.) — 37 focus

[37] Now, let all these men learn not to cleave in their minds to any one of these qualities; that is to say, not to admire them and grasp at them in an immoderate degree, looking upon them all, that is to say on riches, on glory, and on bodily strength, not only not as intrinsically good, but as the greatest of evils. For to misers, the pursuit of money is appropriate, and the pursuit of glory is so to ambitious men, and the acquisition of bodily strength is so to men fond of athletic and of gymnastic exercises. For that which is the better part of them, namely, the soul, they have abandoned as a slave to those things which are inferior to themselves, namely, to inanimate things.

Philo Judaeus De Gigantibus 37

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