Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 180

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[180] 36 τοῦτο μὲν δὴ ταύτῃ λελέχθω. προσήκει δὲ κἀκεῖνο λελογίσθαι, ὅτι μόνων ἀγαθῶν ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς αἴτιος, κακοῦ δὲ
οὐδενὸς τὸ παράπαν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ τὸ πρεσβύτατον τῶν ὄντων καὶ ¹ τελειότατον ἀγαθὸν αὐτὸς ἦν. ἐμπρεπέστατον δὲ τὰ οἰκεῖα τῇ ἑαυτοῦ φύσει δημιουργεῖν ἄριστα τῷ ἀρίστῳ, τὰς μέντοι κατὰ πονηρῶν κολάσεις διὰ τῶν ὑπ’ αὐτὸν βεβαιοῦσθαι.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 180 focus

And this may be enough to say in this manner; and it is right that this point also should be considered, namely that God is the cause only of what is good but is absolutely the cause of no evil whatever, since he himself is the most ancient of all existing things, and the most perfect of all goods; and it is most natural and becoming that he should do what is most akin to his own nature, that is to say, that the best of all beings should be the cause of all the best things, but that the punishments appointed for the wicked are inflicted by the means of his subordinate ministers.

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De confusione linguarum

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1 θεῖον om. F ἐμπρεπὲς GFL2: εὐπρεπὲς HL1 (P evanidus)
5 συμπράξεως addidi, ὑπηρεσίας vel ἐπικουρίας add. Mang. ὁ ταῖς] τοῖς H
7 δοὺς om. HP ἐπιστήμην] Κουσίαν conicio
10 ἐναντίας Turn. : ἐναντίαις GFL-, ἐναντία HPL1
11 καὶ τὸ conicio
12 fi̓άνατον GF: φαρτον HP αἱ] ἅς H
14 λαβοῦσαι G
15 ἀνηνύτῳ GF αἱ add. Maug.
16 ὑπὸ τῶν coni. Mang.
19 ωαστ’ αὐτὸν Mang. : ὡς ταῦτα FHP, ὡς ταύτῃ G, ὤα στ’ αὗ τὰ Turn.
22 ἀωρώπου Mang. : νοῦ codd.
23 αὐτῶν HP ἀναφέρονται H
24 κακία HP
29 μόνον F

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