Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 42

ed. Paul Wendland

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[42] φήσουσι γὰρ αὐτῷ· νῦν ἔγνως, ἀνόσιε, πρότερον δ’ οὐκ ἠπίστασο τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ παντὸς ἡγεμόνος; ἦν γάρ τι πρεσβύτερον θεοῦ,
ᾧ προεντετύχηκας; ἢ τοῖς ἐκγόνοις οὐχ αἱ τῶν γονέων ἀρεταὶ πρὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἅπαξ ἁπάντων γνώριμοι; τοῦ δὲ παντὸς οὐκ ἄρα ἀρχηγέτης ὁ κτίστης καὶ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ; ὥστ’ εἰ νῦν ἐγνωκέναι φῂς σύ, οὐδὲ νῦν ἔγνωκας, ὅτι οὐκ ἀπὸ γενέσεως ἀρχῆς.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On Drunkenness First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 42 focus

[42] "Dost thou now know, O impious man, the power of the Ruler of the universe? but before this thou didst not know it. For was there anything which thou hast ever fallen in with of more antiquity or power than God? And are not the virtues of their parents known to the children before anything else in the world? And was not the Ruler of the universe the creator and the father of it? So that if you now say that you know it, you do not know it now, because you did not know it from the beginning of the creation."

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