Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 170

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[170] λεκτέον οὖν ¹² ἐκεῖνο πρῶτον, ὅτι οὐδὲν τῶν ὄντων ἰσότιμον ὑφέστηκε θεῷ, ἀλλ’ ἔστιν εἷς ἄρχων καὶ ἡγεμὼν καὶ βασιλεύς, ᾧ πρυτανεύειν καὶ διοικεῖν μόνῳ

θέμις τὰ σύμπαντα. τὸ γὰρ

οὐκ ἀγαθὸν πολυκοιρανίη, εἷς κοίρανος ἔστω,

εἷς βασιλεὺς

οὐκ ἐπὶ πόλεων καὶ ἀνθρώπων λέγοιτ’ ἂν ἐν δίκῃ μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπὶ κόσμου καὶ θεοῦ· ἑνὸς γὰρ ἕνα ποιητήν τε καὶ πατέρα πάλιν καὶ δεσπότην

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.) — 170 focus

[170] In the first place, then, we must say this, that there is no existing being equal in honour to God, but there is one only ¹²³⁴⁵ ruler and governor and king, to whom alone it is granted to govern and to arrange the universe. For the verse—

A multitude of kings is never good,

Let there one sovereign, one sole monarch be, ⁶

is not more justly said with respect to cities and men than with respect to the world and to God; for it is clear from the necessity of things that there must be one creator, and one father, and one master of the one universe.

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De confusione linguarum

1.
1 ἡ seclusi
2 εἷς HPL1: εἰ GFL2. 2.3 εἰς ὅσην ἄγει κακοδαιμονίας ὑπερβολὴν conicio
3 ἐκκεχειρία Η
4 ἀφεθῆναί με Oxon. Coll. Novi 143
5 ἀτίθασσον v ὁ ἐπανατάσεως Turn.: ἐπαναστάσεως codd.
8 ἀνείρηται CF
12 βούληται L, βούλεται v
14 ἡ om. Η μηδέποτε D
15 ἐπίθηται HP τῶν φαύλων D : om. codd.
18 περιέργως F τίνα] τί G
19 ἐκεῖ om. Turn.
21 τοῦ ἀνθρώπου F
24 Ἀδάμ om.
25 τῷ] τὸ H, τοῦ Turn. fort. recte
26 ἐφ’] ἀφ’ P

2.
14 —
17 DC fol. 215r Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ περὶ τοῦ νήψας ὁ νοῦς εὔχεται: μήποτε ἰδὡμ —διατελεῖ.

Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 170

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