Philo Judaeus, Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis, ed. Paul Wendland, 177

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[177] ἀρίστην πολιτειῶν ἄγῃ δημοκρατίαν. 37 οὐδὲν οὖν ἔστι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων σπουδασμάτων ἔργον καὶ πρᾶγμα οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ σκιά τις ¹ ἢ αὔρα πρὶν ὑποστῆναι παρατρέχουσα. ἔρχεται γὰρ καὶ πάλιν ἄπεισιν ὥσπερ ἐν ταῖς παλιρροίαις· τὰ γὰρ ἀμπωτίζοντα πελάγη ποτὲ μὲν μετὰ συρμοῦ καὶ πατάγου βίᾳ φέρεται καὶ ἀναχεόμενα λιμνάζει τὴν τέως χέρσον, ποτὲ δὲ ἐξαναχωροῦντα πολλὴν τῆς θαλάττης μοῖραν ἠπειροῖ·

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 177 focus

No one, therefore, of all the objects of human anxiety or of human labour, is of any importance or value; but every such thing is a mere shadow or breath, disappearing before it can get any firm footing; for it comes and then again it departs, like the ebbing tide. For the sea, in its ebb and flow, is at one time borne forwards with great violence, and roaring, and noise, and overflowing its bounds makes a lake of what has previously been dry land; and, at another time, it recedes and makes a large portion of what has been sea, dry land.

Notes on the current edition

Quod deus sit immutabilis

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1 ὑπομείνας ἂν L ὑπομείνασαν τότε δεῖν UF τὸν δεῖνα GH2: τῶ δεῖν MA, τὸ δεῖν PH1 λέγομεν GUFH2, λέγω μὲν L
2 τῶν σου Mang.
4 ἀξίως ὧν Α
5 γὰρ om. UF περὶ ὃ UF: ὃ ceteri συνόλως om. P
7 ὥσπεράνειινων (sic) G ἐπὶ ὥρας Α, ἐπ’ ἐώρας UF ἀβεβαίους G
8 φορεῖσθαι UF
9 θέλῃς G
10 ἴδε τὰς conicio τε om. L τὸ χεῖρον UF: χεῖρον ceteii
11 ἀφείλαντο FHP (s. s. oP)
13 τὸ om. F
15 Πάρθοι F 17.
18 τί δέ Αἰθίοπες—Λιβύην om. MAHPL1
18 prius καὶ om. G
18 Καλχηδὼν U δὲ MAHP
19 δὲ G
20 καὶ post οἰκουμένη add. PH1 οὐ κάτω καὶ ἄνω P τιναττομένη UF
21 ποτὲ bis AU
22 ὁ om. F
23 εἶτα καὶ add. F) περὶ τῶν κατὰ UF ἀεὶ—χώρας om. G
24 ἄλλων ἄλλα HP
26 ἄγει Α
27 σπουδασμάτων] πραγμάτων HL1 οὐδὲν om. UF

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