Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 105

ed. Paul Wendland

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[105] τοιγαροῦν ὁ δίκαιος καὶ ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ καὶ
ἐπαλλήλῳ τοῦ βίου κατακλυσμῷ, μήπω δυνάμενος δίχα αἰσθήσεως ψυχῇ μόνῃ τὰ ὄντα ὄντως ὁρᾶν, „τὴν κιβωτόν„, λέγω δὲ τὸ σῶμα, „ἔνδοθέν τε καὶ ἔξωθεν ἀσφάλτῳ„ καταχρίσει (Gen. 6,14) βεβαιούμενος τὰς δι’ αὐτοῦ φαντασίας καὶ ἐνεργείας· λωφήσαντος δὲ τοῦ κακοῦ καὶ τῆς φορᾶς ἐπισχούσης ἐξελεύσεται χρησάμενος ἀσωμάτῳ διανοίᾳ πρὸς τὴν ἀληθείας
ἀντίληψιν.

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.) — 105 focus

[105] Therefore the just man, even in the great and incessant deluge of life, while he is not as yet able to see things really as they are by the energy of his soul alone without the assistance of the outward sense, will anoint "the ark," by which I understand the body, "both within and without with pitch," ¹ strengthening his imaginations and energies by his own resources; but when the danger has ceased and the violence of the flood abated, then he will come forth, availing himself of his incorporeal mind for the comprehension of truth.

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