Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 158

ed. Paul Wendland

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[158] εἰ δὲ ταῦθ’ οὕτως ἔχει, τοὺς ἀναβαίνειν τολμῶντας ἀνθρώπους οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον ἦν ἐμπεπρῆσθαι κεραυνωθέντας, ἀτελοῦς αὐτοῖς τῆς μεγαλουργηθείσης ἐπινοίας γενομένης; τοῦτ’ ἔοικεν αἰνίττεσθαι διὰ τῶν αὖθις λεγομένων· „ἐπαύσαντο“ γάρ φησιν „οἰκοδομοῦντες τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸν πύργον“ (Gen. 11,8), οὐ δήπου τελειώσαντες, p. 429M. ἀλλὰ
τελεσιουργῆσαι κωλυθέντες διὰ τὴν ἐπιγενομένην σύγχυσιν. οὐ μὴν ἐκπεφεύγασι τὴν τῶν διαπράξεων αἰτίαν οἱ πρὸς τῷ βουλεύσασθαι καὶ ἐγκεχειρηκότες.

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.) — 158 focus

[158] This is the meaning which Moses appears to intend to convey, figuratively, by the expressions which follow: "For they ¹ ceased," says he, "to build the city and the tower." ² Not, indeed, because they had finished their work, but because they were prevented from accomplishing it by the confusion which supervened. Nevertheless, they have not escaped blame for their actions, inasmuch as they had decided on them and attempted to carry them out.

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