Philo Judaeus, Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis, ed. Paul Wendland, 29

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[29] προϊδέσθαι γὰρ ἢ μελλόντων πραγμάτων συντυχίας ἢ γνώμας ἑτέρων ἄνθρωπον ὄντα ἀμήχανον, τῷ δὲ θεῷ ὡς ἐν αὐγῇ καθαρᾷ πάντα ἀρίδηλα. καὶ γὰρ ἄχρι τῶν ψυχῆς μυχῶν p. 227 Μ. φθάσας, ἃ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐστὶν ἀόρατα τηλαυγῶς πέφυκε καθορᾶν, καὶ προμηθείᾳ καὶ προνοίᾳ χρώμενος, οἰκείαις ἀρεταῖς, οὐδὲν ἀπελευθεριάζειν
καὶ ἔξω τῆς ἑαυτοῦ καταλήψεως βαίνειν ἐᾷ· ἐπειδήπερ οὐδ’ ἡ τῶν μελλόντων ἀδηλότης αὐτῷ συμβατή· οὔτε γὰρ ἄδηλον οὔτε μέλλον οὐδὲν θεῷ.

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.) — 29 focus

[29] for it is impossible for us, who are but men, to foresee all the contingencies of future events, or to anticipate the opinions of others; but to God, as dwelling in pure light, all things are visible; for he penetrating into the very recesses of the soul, is able to see, with the most perfect certainty, what is invisible to others, and being possessed of prescience and of providence, his own peculiar attributes, he allows nothing to abuse its liberty, and to stray out of the reach of his comprehension, since with him, there is no uncertainty even in the future, for there is nothing uncertain nor even future to God.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis 29

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