Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 49

ed. Paul Wendland

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[49] εὔχεται οὖν ἡμᾶς ἐν τούτῳ φυτευθῆναι, οὐχ ἵνα ἄλογοι καὶ ἀφηνιασταὶ γενώμεθα τὰς φύσεις, ἀλλ’ ἵνα ἑπόμενοι τῇ τοῦ τελειοτάτου διοικήσει τὴν κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ ὡσαύτως ἔχουσαν αὐτοῦ διέξοδον ἀπομιμούμενοι σώφρονι καὶ ἀπταίστῳ βίῳ χρώμεθα·
τὸ γὰρ ἀκολουθίᾳ φύσεως ἰσχῦσαι ζῆν εὐδαιμονίας τέλος εἶπον οἱ πρῶτοι.

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.) — 49 focus

[49] Therefore he prays that we may be planted in it, not in order that we may become irrational and unmanageable in our natures; but that, in due obedience to the arrangement of the all-perfect governor, imitating his perpetual and undeviating consistency, we may live a temperate and innocent life. For to be able to live in a strict uniformity with nature, is what the men of old have defined as the end of happiness.

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