Philo Judaeus Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis 119

ed. Paul Wendland

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[119]
γένεσις δὲ ἡ μὲν ἀγωγὴ καὶ ὁδός τίς ἐστιν ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος εἰς τὸ εἶναι — ταύτῃ φυτά τε καὶ ζῷα ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἀεὶ χρῆσθαι πέφυκεν —, ἑτέρα δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ ἐκ βελτίονος γένους εἰς ἔλαττον εἶδος μεταβολή, ἧς μέμνηται ὅταν φῇ· „αὗται δὲ αἱ γενέσεις Ἰακώβ· Ἰωσὴφ δέκα ἑπτὰ ἐτῶν ἦν ποιμαίνων μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν τὰ πρόβατα, ὢν νέος, μετὰ τῶν
υἱῶν Βαλλᾶς καὶ μετὰ τῶν υἱῶν Ζελφᾶς τῶν γυναικῶν πατρὸς αὐτοῦ“ (Gen. 37, 2)·

Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Unchangeableness of God First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 119 focus

[119] But there is one kind of creation, which is a sort of conducting and travelling from that which does not exist to existence. This is the one which plants, and animals do of necessity use; and there is another kind, which is a transition and change from a better genus to a worse species, which Moses mentions when he says, "These are the generations of Jacob; Joseph when he was seventeen years of age, was keeping the sheep with his brethren, being a youth with the sons of Billah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives." ¹

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