Philo Judaeus, Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis, ed. Paul Wendland, 127

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[127] 27 διὸ καὶ παραδοξότατον νόμον ἀναγράφει, ἐν ᾧ τὸν μὲν ἐκ μέρους
ὄντα λεπρὸν ἀκάθαρτον, τὸν δὲ ὅλον δι’ ὅλων ἀπὸ ἄκρων ποδῶν ἄχρι κεφαλῆς ἐσχάτης κατεσχημένον τῇ λέπρᾳ καθαρόν φησιν εἶναι (Lev. 13,11-13), τάχα ἄν τινος τὸ ἐναντίον, ὅπερ εὔλογον ἦν ὑπολαβεῖν, εἰκάσαντος, τὴν μὲν ἐσταλμένην καὶ περί τι βραχὺ τοῦ σώματος λέπραν ἧττον ἀκάθαρτον, τὴν δὲ κεχυμένην, ὡς ἅπαν περιλαβεῖν αὐτό, μᾶλλον.

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.) — 127 focus

On which account Moses also establishes a most extraordinary law, in which he enjoins that "the man who is in part leprous shall be accounted impure, but that he who is wholly, from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head overwhelmed with leprosy, shall be considered pure;" ¹ for any one else, I apprehend, reasoning from probability, would say the exact contrary, and would think that the leprosy which was contracted, and which extended over only a small portion of the body, was less impure, but that the leprosy which was diffused, so as to spread over the whole body was more impure:

Philo Judaeus Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis 127

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