Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 169

ed. Paul Wendland

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[169] ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατ’ εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθ’ ὁμοίωσιν“ (Gen. 1,26) τοῦ „ποιήσωμεν“ πλῆθος ἐμφαίνοντος· καὶ πάλιν „εἶπεν ὁ θεός· ἰδού, γέγονεν Ἀδὰμ ὡς εἷς ἡμῶν, τῷ γινώσκειν καλὸν καὶ πονηρόν“ (Gen. 3, 22)· p. 431 M. τὸ γὰρ
„ὡς εἷς ἡμῶν“ οὐκ ἐφ’ ἑνός, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πλειόνων τίθεται.

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.) — 169 focus

[169] for there, too, Moses records that "the Lord God said, Come, let us now make man in our image; man in our similitude." ¹ The expression, "Let us make," implying a number of creators. And, in another place, we are told that God said, "Behold, the man, Adam, has become as one of us, in respect of his knowing good and evil;" ²for the expression, "as one of us," is not applicable to one person, but to many.

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