Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 162

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[162] δίκην δ’ ὑπερβάλλουσαν κατὰ τῶν ἐπ’ ἀθεότητι λόγους οἰκοδομουμένων καὶ συγκροτούντων ὁρίζει, ἣν ἴσως τινὲς τῶν ἀφρόνων οὐ βλάβην, ἀλλ’ ὠφέλειαν ὑποτοπήσουσιν· „οὐ γὰρ ἐκλείψει“ φησίν „ἀπ’ αὐτῶν πάντα ὅσα ἂν ἐπιθῶνται ποιεῖν“ (Gen. 11,6). ὢ τῆς ἀπεριγράφου καὶ ἀμέτρου κακοδαιμονίας,
πάνθ’ οἷς ἂν ὁ φρενοβλαβέστατος ἐπιθῆται νοῦς, ὑποχείρια εἶναι καὶ ὑπήκοα, καὶ μηδέν, μὴ μέγα μὴ μικρόν, ὑστερίζειν τὸ παράπαν, ἀλλ’

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

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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.) — 162 focus

[162] And it was an excessive punishment which was then denounced against the reasons which were thus built up and put together for purposes of impiety; which, however, perhaps some foolish persons will look upon not as injury, but as a benefit. "For," says Moses, "there shalt not fail to them any one of the things which they have endeavoured to do." ¹ Alas for their unlimited and interminable misery! All the objects which the most insane intention fixes its desires upon shall be successfully carried out, and shall obey its will, so that nothing whatever shall fail, either small or great, but everything shall, as it were, make haste to meet and to anticipate their requirements.

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