Philo Judaeus De Plantatione 88

ed. Paul Wendland

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[88] μέγιστον δ’ ἂν ψυχῆς γένοιτο ἀγαθὸν μηκέτι ἐνδοιάζειν περὶ τῆς πρὸς ἑκάτερα τοῦ βασιλέως ἰσχύος, ἀλλ’ ἀνενδοιάστως τὸν μὲν ἕνεκα τοῦ κράτους τῆς ἀρχῆς αὐτοῦ φόβον ἐπικρεμάμενον καταλύειν, τὴν δὲ ἐκ τοῦ προαιρετικῶς εἶναι φιλόδωρον
ἀγαθῶν κτήσεως καὶ χρήσεως ἐλπίδα βεβαιοτάτην ζωπυρεῖν.

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.) — 88 focus

[88] And it would be the greatest possible advantage to the soul no longer to feel any doubt about the power of the king for both purposes, but steadily to emancipate itself from the fear, which is suspended over it, on account of the vastness of his authority, and to kindle and keep alive a most firm hope of the acquisition and enjoyment of blessings arising from his being beneficent by deliberate intention.

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