Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 46

ed. Paul Wendland

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[46] 12 τοιαῦτα μὲν δὴ δένδρα ὁ μόνος σοφὸς ἐν ψυχαῖς λογικαῖς ἐρρίζου. Μωυσῆς δὲ
οἰκτιζόμενος τοὺς μετανάστας ἐκ τοῦ τῶν ἀρετῶν παραδείσου γεγονότας καὶ τὸ αὐτεξούσιον τοῦ θεοῦ κράτος αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς ἵλεως καὶ ἡμέρους δυνάμεις εὔχεται, ὅθεν ὁ γήινος νοῦς Ἀδὰμ πεφυγάδευται, κεῖθι τοὺς ὁρατικοὺς ἐμφυτευθῆναι· λέγει γάρ·

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 46 focus

Such then are the trees which the only wise God has planted in rational souls. But Moses, pitying those who were exiled and compelled to quit the paradise of the virtues, addresses a prayer to the absolute authority of God and to his merciful and propitious powers, entreating that in the place from which the earthly mind, Adam, was banished, there a people capable of seeing the truth might be planted.

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