Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 128

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[128] ὁ δὲ ἀπεκρίνατο τέλεια μὲν καὶ πλήρη πάντα διὰ πάντων εἶναι, ἓν δὲ μόνον ζητεῖν, τὸν ἐπαινέτην αὐτῶν λόγον, ὃς τὰς ἐν πᾶσι καὶ τοῖς βραχυτάτοις καὶ ἀφανεστάτοις δοκοῦσιν ὑπερβολὰς οὐκ ἐπαινέσει μᾶλλον ἢ ἐξαγγελεῖ· τὰς γὰρ διηγήσεις τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ ἔργων
αὐταρκέστατον ἐκείνων ἔπαινον εἶναι, προσθήκης οὐδεμιᾶς ἔξωθεν εἰς ¹² κόσμον δεομένων, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἀψευδὲς τῆς ἀληθείας τελειότατον ἐχόντων ἐγκώμιον.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

About the Planting of Noah First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 128 focus

[128] and he replied, that every thing every where was perfect and complete; but that he wished for one thing only, namely for reason, which should be able duly to praise it all, and which should not so much praise as give an accurate account of the exceeding excellence existing throughout, even in these things which appeared the most unimportant and the most obscure; for he said that an exact account of the works of God was their most complete and adequate panegyric, since they required no addition of external things to set them forth, but were of such a character that the bare plain truth was their most perfect encomium."

Notes on the current edition

De plantatione

1.
1 δυεῖν (iliF: δυοῖν MH
2 γ' M δ' M
4 καὶ post ἅγιος add. U
5 πλήρη τοῦτον τὸν ἀριθμὸν #x003E;, ὃς καὶ συμπάντων .... ὅρον ἔχει conicio (cf. De opif. §
47 ἀριθμῶ M 7.
8 ἐν ἀριθμοῖς scripsi: μὲν ἀριθμὸς codd.
8 ἀλλὰ δεκὰς μὲν Η: om. MGUF δυνάμει UH: δύναμιν MGF
10 γε] γὰρ conicio ἅγιον] αἰνετόν Mang.
11 ἔνεστι MGUFN: ἔστι Η ἐγχαριστῆσαι M
12 ἀναθυμάτων Η
14 γεγονὸς G
17 μετέπειτα UH: ἔπειτα MGFN 17.
18 (8;) οὐδὲ vel παρελθών conicio ἀεὶ παιδείας λίχνους MGUF: εἰς ἀεὶ παιδείας λίχνους N, ἀεὶ λίχνους παιδείας Η
19 ἑνὸς] ἐντὸς H
20 μὴ γενόμενον ποθεῖ U
20 τῶν] τὸν M
23 ὃς] ὡς U
24 τοῖς om. L
25 μᾶλλον] μόνον H
26 ἐπαίτιον N εἶναι HG2: ἶνα MG1UFN

2. 9—159,17
17 N fol. 188r: τόν τε παιδείς—γεγονότων.

Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 128

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