Philo Judaeus De Gigantibus 65

ed. Paul Wendland

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[65] ἐπὶ μηδέτερα ἀποκλίνων καὶ ἐκτρεπόμενος. 15 οἱ δὲ γῆς παῖδες τὸν νοῦν ἐκβιβάσαντες τοῦ λογίζεσθαι καὶ p. 272 M. μεταλλοιώσαντες εἰς τὴν ἄψυχον καὶ ἀκίνητον σαρκῶν φύσιν — „ἐγένοντο γὰρ οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν", ᾗ φησιν ὁ νομοθέτης (Gen. 2, 24) — τὸ ἄριστον ἐκιβδήλευσαν νόμισμα
καὶ τὴν μὲν ἀμείνω καὶ οἰκείαν τάξιν ἔλιπον, πρὸς δὲ τὴν χείρω καὶ ἐναντίαν ηὐτομόλησαν ἄρξαντος τοῦ ἔργου Νεβρώδ·

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.) — 65 focus

But the sons of earth removing their minds from contemplation, and becoming deserters so as to fly to the lifeless and immovable nature of the flesh, "for they two became one flesh," ¹ as the lawgiver says, adulterated the excellent coinage, and abandoned the better rank which had been allotted to them as their own, and deserted to the worse rank, which was contrary to their original nature, Nimrod being the first to set the example of this desertion;

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