Philo Judaeus Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis 24

ed. Paul Wendland

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[24] τῷ γὰρ ὄντι θαυμάσιον, ὥσπερ
τινὰ λύραν τὴν ψυχὴν μουσικῶς ἁρμοσάμενον οὐκ ὀξέσι καὶ βαρέσι τοῖς φθόγγοις, ἀλλ’ ἐπιστήμῃ μὲν τῶν ἐναντίων, χρήσει δὲ τῶν ἀμεινόνων, μήτε ἐπιτεῖναι προσυπερβάλλοντα μήτε ἀνεῖναι μαλθάξαντα τὴν ἀρετῶν καὶ τῶν φύσει καλῶν ἁρμονίαν, δι’ ἴσου δ’ αὐτὴν φυλάξαντα κροτεῖν καὶ ἐπιψάλλειν ἐμμελῶς.

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.) — 24 focus

[24] for it is really marvellous when any one touches the soul, like a lyre tuned in musical principles, not with sharp and flat sounds, but with an accurate knowledge of contrary tones, and employing only the best, not sounding any too loudly, nor on the other hand letting any be too weak, so as to impair the harmony of the virtues and of those things which are good by nature, and when he, preserving it in an equal condition plays and sings melodiously;

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