Philo Judaeus De Agricultura 54

ed. Paul Wendland

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[54] χαρίζεσθαι. 13 παγκάλη δὲ εἰς ὁσιότητα παραίνεσις ἡ διὰ τοῦ λεχθέντος ᾄσματος· τῷ γὰρ ὄντι ὁ μὲν πάντα τὰ ἄλλα δοκῶν ἔχειν, τῇ δὲ ἑνὸς προστασίᾳ δυσχεραίνων, ἀτελὴς καὶ πένης· ἥτις δὲ ὑπὸ θεοῦ ποιμαίνεται ψυχὴ τὸ ἓν καὶ μόνον ἔχουσα, οὗ τὰ πάντα ἐκκρέμαται,
ἀπροσδεὴς εἰκότως ἐστὶν ἄλλων, οὐ τυφλὸν πλοῦτον, βλέποντα δὲ καὶ σφόδρα ὀξυδορκοῦντα θαυμάζουσα.

De Agricultura. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Agricultura (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Tilling of the Earth by Noah First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 54 focus

But there is a very beautiful encouragement to equality contained in the song before mentioned; for in real truth, the man who appears to have everything else, and yet who is impatient under the authority of one master, is incomplete in his happiness, and is poor; but if a soul is governed by God, having that one and only thing on which all other things depend, it is very naturally in no need of other things, regarding not blind riches, but only such as are endowed with real and acute sight. ¹

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