Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 59

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[59] ἀλλὰ τῷ τοῦ παντὸς ἡγεμόνι θεῷ, δι’ ὃν πρὸς τὰ ἔργα φθάνουσι μᾶλλον ἢ τοὺς
p. 414 M. λόγους ἀπαντῶντες· τῶν γὰρ ἄλλων ἐπειδὰν ἀκούσωσι πραττόντων οὗτοι, τὸ παραδοξότατον, ὑπὸ κατοκωχῆς ἐνθέου πράξειν φασὶ πρότερον, ¹ εἶτα ἀκούσεσθαι, ἵνα μὴ διδασκαλίᾳ καὶ ὑφηγήσει δοκῶσιν, ἀλλὰ ἐθελουργῷ καὶ αὐτοκελεύστῳ διανοίᾳ πρὸς τὰ καλὰ τῶν ἔργων ὑπαντᾶν· ἐργασάμενοι δὲ ἀκούσεσθαί φασιν, ὅπως ἐπικρίνωσι τὰ πραχθέντα, εἰ λόγοις θείοις καὶ ἱεραῖς παραινέσεσι συνᾴδει.

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.) — 59 focus

[59] For these men no longer obey reason as their ruler, but God, the governor of the universe, by whom they are assisted so as to display their energies in actions rather than in words. For when they hear of others doing such and such things, these men, which is a thing most contrary to what one would expect, say that, from some inspiration of God, they will act first and obey afterwards; in order that they may seem to have advanced to good actions, not in consequence of instruction and admonition, but by their own spontaneous and self-taught mind. And then, when they have accomplished these actions, they say ¹²³⁴ that they will obey in order that they may form an opinion of what they have done, as to whether their actions are consistent with the divine injunctions and the sacred admonitions of scripture.

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De confusione linguarum

1.
1 ἐπαυχενίζοντ2ς P οὕτω HP μέν ora. Η 3.
4 συμφωνήσουσι conicio
4 λογισμοῖς G ὁ (aTi’’) αὐτῶν conicio
7 ἀλλὰ GF πᾶσαι IIP
8 ἐκμενὲς H
9 οὐδὲν οὔτε scripsi: οὐδὲ codd. οὔι’ codd. : ουδ’ v
10 πάντη Η γελασθέντα] τελεσθέντα coni. llani?., ἀγαπήσαντα vel γελάσαντες conicio
11 τροp̀ν coni. Mang. ἔγγονον v
12 Βεελφαγὼρ v ὑπνοῦντα] διαφωνοῦντα coni. Mang. τό ἐπίλεκτον coni. Mang.
16 εἰρήνην GF: εἰρήνη, εἰρήνης Pv
18 lacunam statui ἐξ ἧς coni. Cohn et ante τοῖς lacunam statuit
19 πρὸ IIP: πρὸς GF ad πιστεῦσαι add. δεῖ vel χρὴ Mang.
20 ἡρτισμἐνον G
23 ποιήσομεν καὶ ἀκουσόμεθα Turn.: ποιἡσωυͅεν καὶ ἀκουσώμεθα codd.
24 τῷ om. GF
25 ὃν GFP: ὧν II,
8 conicio
27 κατοκωχῆς scripsi: κατακωχῆς codd. ἐκ Oeou v

Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 59

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