Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 103

ed. Paul Wendland

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[103] δοκοῦσι μὲν γὰρ οἱ φαῦλοι τὰ ἀσθενῆ κραταιοῦσθαι κατὰ τῶν ἀμεινόνων καὶ τὰ διαλυόμενα καὶ ῥέοντα ἐξ αὐτῶν πήττειν,
ἵν’ ἐπ’ ἐχυροῦ βάλωσι καὶ τοξεύσωσιν ἀρετήν· ὁ δ’ ἵλεως καὶ πατὴρ τῶν καλῶν οὐκ ἐφήσει τὸ δεδεμένον ἐκνικᾶν εἰς ἀδιάλυτον ἀσφάλειαν, ῥεούσης σπουδῆς μὴ ὑφεστὼς ἔργον ὡς πλαδῶντα πηλὸν ἀναδείξας.

De Confusione Linguarum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On the Confusion of Languages First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 103 focus

[103] "And they had slime for mortar;" not, on the contrary, mortar for slime. For the wicked appear to strengthen and fortify what is weak against what is more powerful, and from their own resources to consolidate and preserve what melts and flows away from such things, in order that they may aim and shoot at virtue from a safe place. But the merciful God and father of the good will not permit their buildings to be established in indissoluble safety, their work of melting zeal not being able to withstand, but becoming like soft mud.

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