Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 155

ed. Paul Wendland

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[155] οὐκ ἐπειδὴ μέντοι μόνον ἤρξαντο πρὸς τὸ τέλος
ἐλθεῖν ἀδυνατήσαντες ἀσεβείας, διὰ τοῦτ’ αὐτοὺς οὐχ ὡς διαπραξαμένους ἕκαστα ὧν διενοήθησαν αἰτιατέον· οὗ χάριν καὶ τετελειωκέναι φησὶ τὸν πύργον αὐτοὺς οὐ τελειώσαντας, ἐπειδὰν λέγῃ· „κύριος κατέβη ἰδεῖν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸν πύργον", οὐχ ὃν οἰκοδομῆσαι μέλλουσιν, ἀλλ’ ὃν „ᾠκοδόμησαν“ ἤδη (Gen. 11,5).

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.) — 155 focus

[155] Are they not to be blamed, since indeed they have only begun, being unable to arrive at the end of the impiety they propose to themselves, are they not, I say, to be blamed just as much as if they had accomplished all the objects that they had in view? On this account also, Moses speaks of them as having finished the tower, though in fact they had not yet completed it, where he says, "The Lord went down to see the city and the tower," not which the sons of men were going to build, but which they had built.

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