Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 39

ed. Paul Wendland

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[39] 11 πολλοὶ δ’ οὐ δυνάμενοι τὰς πιθανὰς τῶν σοφιστῶν εὑρέσεις ἀνὰ κράτος ἑλεῖν τῷ μὴ σφόδρα περὶ λόγους διὰ τὴν ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις συνεχῆ μελέτην γεγυμνάσθαι κατέφυγον ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ μόνου σοφοῦ συμμαχίαν καὶ βοηθὸν αὐτὸν ἱκέτευσαν γενέσθαι· καθὰ καὶ τῶν Μωυσέως γνωρίμων
τις ἐν ὕμνοις εὐχόμενος εἶπεν· „ἄλαλα γενέσθω τὰ χείλη τὰ δόλια„ (Psalm. 30, 19).

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.) — 39 focus

But many, who are not able vigorously to refute the plausible inventions of the sophists, because they have not very much practised discussion by reason of their continued application to action, have taken refuge in the alliance of the only wise Being, and have besought him to become their defender. As one of the friends of Moses, when praying, says in his hymns, "Let the treacherous lips become mute;" ¹ and how can they become mute if they are not curbed by the only ²³ being who has speech itself as his subject?

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