Philo Judaeus Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis 180

ed. Paul Wendland

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[180] ἀδύνατον γὰρ τὸν μὴ ταῖς ὑψηλαῖς καὶ ὁρικαῖς χρώμενον ὁδοῖς ἀπογνῶναι μὲν τὰ θνητά, μετακλῖναι δὲ καὶ μεταναστῆναι πρὸς τὰ ἄφθαρτα. ὁ μὲν οὖν γήινος Ἐδὼμ τὴν οὐράνιον καὶ βασιλικὴν ἀρετῆς ὁδὸν ἐπιφράττειν ἀξιοῖ, ὁ δὲ θεῖος λόγος ἔμπαλιν τὴν ἐκείνου
καὶ τῶν ὁμοζήλων· ὧν ἕνα καὶ τὸν Βαλαὰμ ἀναγραπτέον· γῆς γὰρ θρέμμα καὶ οὗτος, οὐκ οὐρανοῦ βλάστημα.

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.) — 180 focus

[180] For it is impossible for one who is not in the habit of using high and mountainous roads to repudiate all mortal affairs, and to turn aside and change his paths for what is immortal. Therefore the earthly Edom thinks it right to blockade the heavenly and royal road of virtue, and the divine reason blockades his road, and that of all who follow his opinions;

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