Philo Judaeus, Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis, ed. Paul Wendland, 47

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[47] μόνην γὰρ αὐτὴν ὁ γεννήσας πατὴρ ἐλευθερίας ἠξίωσε,
καὶ τὰ τῆς ἀνάγκης ἀνεὶς δεσμὰ ἄφετον εἴασε, δωρησάμενος αὐτῇ τοῦ πρεπωδεστάτου καὶ οἰκείου κτήματος αὐτῷ, τοῦ ἑκουσίου, μοῖραν, ἣν ἠδύνατο δέξασθαι· τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλα ζῷα, ὧν ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς τὸ ἐξαιρούμενον εἰς ἐλευθερίαν νοῦς οὐκ ἔστι, καταζευχθέντα καὶ ἐγχαλινωθέντα πρὸς ὑπηρεσίαν ἀνθρώποις παραδέδοται ὥσπερ οἰκέται δεσπόταις,
ὁ δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἐθελουργοῦ καὶ αὐτοκελεύστου γνώμης λαχὼν καὶ ¹² προαιρετικαῖς χρώμενος τὰ πολλὰ ταῖς ἐνεργείαις εἰκότως ψόγον μὲν ἔσχεν ἐφ’ οἷς ἐκ προνοίας ἀδικεῖ, ἔπαινον δὲ ἐφ’ οἷς ἑκὼν κατορθοῖ.

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.) — 47 focus

[47] for that is the only quality in us which the Father, who created us, thought deserving of freedom; and, unloosing the bonds of necessity, he let it go unrestrained, bestowing on it that most admirable gift and most connected with himself, the power, namely, of spontaneous will, as far as he was able to receive it; for the irrational animals, in whose soul there is not that especial gift tending to freedom, namely, mind, are put under the yoke and have bridles put in their mouths, and so are given unto men to be their slaves, as servants are given to their masters. But man, who has had bestowed on him a voluntary and self-impelling intellect, and who for the most part puts forth his energies in accordance with deliberate purpose, very properly receives blame for the offences which he designedly commits, and praise for the good actions which he intentionally performs.

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Quod deus sit immutabilis

1.
1 ἀμυδρὰν HP, ἢ ἀμυδρὸν MDR
2 τυπωθὲν D ποτὲ bis DL οἰκείως] εἰκὸς P ὡς GUFNDE: καὶ ὡς H2, οἰκείως PH1, om. MA
4 εἶναι om. Ε δὴ om. UFNE ζῶον G1 ὑπερέχει E δὲ om. U, δὴ Α, τοίνυν E
5 ἀγελῶν U ὑπερβέβληκεν MAH1P: ὑπερβέβηκεν ceteri ὁ ἄνθρωπος HP 5.
6 οὗτος τοίνυν ἐξαίρετον UF, οὗτος δὲ ἐξαίρετον Ε
6 οὗτος post ἔλακε transpos. G ἣ MG: ἢ Α, ἧ ceteri E ὁμοῦ om. E
8 ἡγεμονικώτατον GUFE
9 οὕτως Α, οὗτος post οἰκείαις transpos. H1P, del. Η2
10 ταῖς ante οἰκείαις add. UFE, δὲ add. G
13 ἔλαχε] ἐπὶ G1, ἀπὸ G2 ἧς καὶ αἱ D
14 παρ’ ὃ AGU
15 διάνοια G1UF: διάνοιαν ceteri γεννήσας ὁ DM
16 ἀφέτην G αὐτῇ om. DM
17 οἰκειοτάτου GF αὐτῶ MAGHPab: αὐτῶν UFr, αὐτοῦ DM
18 ἄλλα] ἄλογα UH2 18.
19 ψυχαῖς ἡ ἐξαιρουμένη εἰς ἐλευθερίαν διάνοια οὐκ ἔστι E
19 ὁ ἐξαιρούμενος UF 19.
20 χαλινωθέντα E
20 παραδίδοται U
21 δ’ E ἐλευθερουργοῦ AHP2, ἐλευθέρου γοῦν P1 γνώμης] γνῶσιν HP προαιρετικῶς HL1

2.
9 cf. Aristot. Topica I
17 p. 108a11 ὡς ὄψις ἐν ὀφθαλμῷ, νοῦς ἐν ψυχῇ et quae collegi in Elteri Gnomologiorum graecorum historia p. 232. 11—18 DM fol. 282, DP fol. 376v τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοῦ περὶ γιγάντων: τῆς ψυχῆς τὸ εἶδος—ἣν ἡδύνατο δέξασθαι.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis 47

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