Philo Judaeus, De Plantatione, ed. Paul Wendland, 36

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[36] μεγάλων ἀρετῶν, ἐκθεσμότατα ὄντα εὑρήματα. 9 ἰτέον οὖν ἐπ’ ἀλληγορίαν τὴν ὁρατικοῖς φίλην ἀνδράσι· καὶ γὰρ οἱ χρησμοὶ τὰς εἰς ¹ αὐτὴν ἡμῖν ἀφορμὰς ἐναργέστατα προτείνουσι· λέγουσι γὰρ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ φυτὰ εἶναι μηδὲν ἐοικότα τοῖς παρ’ ἡμῖν, ἀλλὰ ζωῆς, ἀθανασίας, εἰδήσεως, καταλήψεως, συνέσεως, καλοῦ καὶ πονηροῦ φαντασίας.

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.)

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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.) — 36 focus

We must therefore have recourse to allegory, which is a favourite with men capable of seeing through it; for the sacred oracles most evidently conduct us towards and instigate us to the pursuit of it. For they say that in the Paradise there were plants in no respect similar to those which exist among us; but they speak of trees of life, trees of immortality, trees of knowledge, of comprehension, of understanding; trees of the knowledge of good and evil.

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De plantatione

1.
2 θνητὸς om. UE
3 post ἱκανὸς add. ἐντὸς E ἀθρόον Ε ἀγέννητος UH τεχνητῆς M
4 ἀεὶ om. H
6 ἀκόλουθος corr. ex ἀκόλουθον M
7 ἐν ’Eδὲμ παράδεισον
31 ἐν Ἐδὲμ om. F
8 ἔπλασεν] ἐποίησεν U
10 ὑπὸ θεοῦ πεφυτεῦσθαι suppleo ἡ εὐήθεια GH2, ἡ ἀλήθεια E
11 εὐαγώγου G ὁ γὰρ UF (iateirogatiouis siguum post πανηγεμόνι posui): οὐ γὰρ GUH
12 ἄν om. H
13 δόξαιεν ὑστερίζειν F
14 ἀξιόχρεω MFH1 χωρὶς scripsi: χωρίον codd. τοῦ MGUF: τῶ Η
15 ἐν τῶ αἰτιατῷ M: ἐν τῶ GUFH, ἔν τῳ Turn. τῷ seclusi 18.
19 τὸ πρῶτον MGF: πρῶτον UH
22 εὐτρεπίσθαι MU: ηὐτρεπίσθαι GFII παραδέξηται G
24 ἐπᾴδει M τῶν] τὸν G
25 αὐτὸν M
20 εὑρέματα H ἰτέον UH (ras. ante τ in Η): εἴτε MGF
27 φίλοις M

Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 36

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