Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 165

ed. Paul Wendland

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[165] εἷς δέ τις τῶν ἀφρόνων ᾐσθημένος, εἰς ὅσην κακοδαιμονίας ὑπερβολὴν ἄγει ἡ τοῦ διαμαρτάνειν ἐκεχειρία, μετὰ παρρησίας εἶπε· „μείζων ἡ αἰτία μου τοῦ ἀφεθῆναι“ (Gen. 4, 13).
παγχάλεπον γὰρ ἀχαλίνωτον ἐαθῆναι ψυχὴν ἀτίθασον οὖσαν ἐξ ἑαυτῆς, ἣν μόλις ἡνίαις μετ’ ἐπανατάσεως μαστίγων ἔστι κατασχόντα πραῧναι.

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.) — 165 focus

[165] But one of the crowd of foolish men, perceiving to what an abundant superfluity of misery indulgence in sinning leads, said, speaking with perfect freedom, "My wickedness is too great for me to be forgiven." ¹²³ It is, therefore, very melancholy indeed for the soul, which is by its own nature unmanageable, to be left without any restraint; while it is scarcely possible for any one to hold it in with reins, and by that means, in conjunction with the infliction of stripes, to reduce it to reason.

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