Philo Judaeus, Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis, ed. Paul Wendland, 78

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[78] ἢ νομίζεις ἄκρατον μὲν τὴν ἡλίου φλόγα μὴ δύνασθαι θεαθῆναι — ¹² σβεσθήσεται γὰρ πρότερον ἡ ὄψις μαρμαρυγαῖς τῶν ἀκτίνων ἀμυδρωθεῖσα ἢ προσβάλλουσα καταλήψεται· καίτοι καὶ ἥλιος ἓν ἦν ἔργον θεοῦ, μοῖρα οὐρανοῦ, πίλημα αἰθέριον —, τὰς δὲ ἀγενήτους ἄρα δυνάμεις ἐκείνας, αἳ περὶ αὐτὸν οὖσαι λαμπρότατον φῶς ἀπαστράπτουσιν, ἀκράτους περινοῆσαι δύνασθαι;

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.) — 78 focus

[78] Do you think that you would be unable to look at the unmodified light of the sun? If you were to try to do so, your sight would be extinguished by the brilliancy of his rays, and be wholly blinded by a close approach to that luminary, before it could perceive anything, and yet the sun is only one of the works of God, a portion of the heaven, a fragment of compressed aether, but you are nevertheless able to gaze upon those uncreated powers which exist around him, and emit the most dazzling light, without any veil or modification.

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Quod deus sit immutabilis

1.
1 ras. ante πάντα Η αὐτοῦ PL ὁ fort. del.
2 post σύμπαν add. πλεῖστον H et ἢ τὸ supra scr. Η2 ἀνθρώπων πλῆθος add. Η2, ἀνθρώπων πλείστων P ὑπερβολὴν F
3 περιπίπτῃ suspectum, fort. πίπτῃ. παραπίπτῃ vel περιπταίῃ coni. Mang.
4 εἰς ἅπαν MAUFP
5 τὸν] τῶ Α ὅτι L
6 τίνειν MAHP: τίσειν GU, τίσιν F τὸν] τὸ G
7 καὶ] γὰρ καὶ PH1
8 σοι κύριε F 8.
9 γὰρ μὴ βουλῆ θεὸς U, γὰρ μὴ βουληθῆ θεὸς F
9 γένει UF: om. ceteri ἐλέους U
10 τὸν] τῶν AUH1 ἄχρι MAUFP: μέχρι GH
11 τὸ] ποτὲ UF, τοῦ H2 τὸ] τοῦ H2
12 ἵν’ AFP: ἵνα ceteri 12.
13 κὰν πολλὰ—εὐεργεσίας om. F
13 τῶν ὄγκων βαθεῖα χωρητὸν G, βαθεία etiam Α εἰδικῶν Maug.: ἰδικῶν codd. ὡς Α
14 μόνον οὐ UF ἀλλὰ καὶ UF: ἀλλὰ MG, ἀλλ’ AUP
15 δίκης] δικαίου Flur. Laur. τὸ ἔλεος UF ἐστιν om. Flor. Laur.
16 δίκην] κρίσιν UF Flor. Laur.
17 κυρίου] θεοῦ U
18 κεκερασμένον MAU, κερασμένον F τό γε MAHP: γε GU, om. F κεκραμμένον HP
20 κέχρηται GUF 20.
21 κεκραμμέναις HP
22 μὴ om. UF θεάσασθαι conicio

2. 14—16 Flor. Laur. nr. 1: ὁ θεὸς οὐ δικάσας ἐλεεῖ, ἀλλ’ ἐλεήσας.

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