Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 196

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[196] παρὸ καὶ λέγει· „διέσπειρεν αὐτοὺς
κύριος ἐκεῖθεν“ (Gen. 11,8), ἐν ἴσῳ τῷ ἐσκέδασεν, ἐφυγάδευσεν, ἀφανεῖς ἐποίησε· τὸ γὰρ σπείρειν ἀγαθῶν, κακῶν δὲ αἴτιον τὸ διασπείρειν, ¹ ὅτι τὸ μὲν ἐπιδόσεως καὶ αὐξήσεως καὶ γενέσεως ἑτέρων ἕνεκα συμβαίνει, τὸ δ’ ἀπωλείας καὶ φθορᾶς. βούλεται δὲ ὁ φυτουργὸς θεὸς σπείρειν μὲν ἐν τῷ παντὶ p. 435 M. καλοκἀγαθίαν, διασπείρειν δὲ καὶ ἐλαύνειν ἐκ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου πολιτείας τὴν ἐπάρατον ἀσέβειαν, ἵν’ ἤδη ποτὲ
παύσωνται τὴν κακίας πόλιν καὶ τὸν ἀθεότητος πύργον οἰκοδομοῦντες μισάρετοι τρόποι.

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.) — 196 focus

[196] On which account Moses tells us, "The Lord scattered them from thence;" which is equivalent to, he dispersed them, he put them to flight, he banished them, he destroyed them; for to scatter is sometimes done with a view to the production, and growth, and increase of other things; but there is another kind which has for its object overthrow and destruction: but God, the planter of the world, wishes to sow in every one excellence, but to scatter and drive from the world accursed impiety; that the disposition which hates virtue may at last desist from building up a city of wickedness, and a tower of impiety;

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De confusione linguarum

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1 τὴν διάνοιαν ΗP ὁ prius] ὃν ὁ G, ἐνίοτε ὁ couicio
2 σύγχυσιν om. H προσεῖπεν H
3 εὐθυβολώτατον L ἀντὶ HP: ἄν τις GF ὁ ἀπλ νῶν H
8 καὶ ova. L κατ’ αὐτὸ scripsi: καθ’ αὐτὸ FH, καθ’ αὑτὸ GP
10 προσεχεστέροις codd. : προσφυεστέροις Mang.
13 ἀνελεῖν GF: τελεῖν HP
16 οὐδενί om. F
17 θεάσαιτο H: θεάσαιντο GFP χεῖλος UP ἐνστόμιος scripsi: ἐνστοματίας GF, ἐν στόματι HP
18 γεὐσοιντο GF ῥῖνας Η ὅ τ’ αὖ FUP: δταν G, οὔτ’ αὖ v
20 τὸ om. F 20.
21 πλησίου G
22 καὶ Mang. : καὶ εἰ codd., καὶ εἰς Turn.
23 ἀφῃρῆσθαι Mang.: ἀφῄρηταί codd. τὰ GF: τῆ HP σύγχυσιν Turu. : χύσιν codd.
25 παρ’ ὅ P διὸ ἔσπειρεν GF
26 ἐν ἴσφ] ἴσον Mang. τῷ] τὸ G
27 ἐποίησεν H lacunam supplevi

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