Philo Judaeus De Confusione Linguarum 69

ed. Paul Wendland

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[69] σπαράττεται γὰρ καὶ κλονεῖται καὶ τινάττεται πᾶς ὁ τῶν φαύλων βίος, κυκώμενος ἀεὶ καὶ ταραττόμενος καὶ μηδὲν ἴχνος ἀγαθοῦ γνησίου θησαυριζόμενος ἐν ἑαυτῷ. καθάπερ γὰρ τῶν ἀποτιναττομένων ὅσα μὴ ἑνώσει διακρατεῖται πάντα ἐκπίπτει, τοῦτόν μοι δοκεῖ καὶ ἡ τοῦ συμπεπνευκότος
ἐπὶ τῷ ἀδικεῖν ἐκτετινάχθαι τὸν τρόπον ψυχή· πᾶσαν γὰρ ἰδέαν ἀρετῆς ἀπορρίπτει, ὡς μήτε σκιὰν μήτε εἴδωλον αὐτῆς ἐμφαίνεσθαι τὸ παράπαν.

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.) — 69 focus

[69] for the whole life of the wicked is shaken, and agitated, and torn to pieces, being always kept in a state of commotion and confusion, and having no trace of any genuine good laid up in itself. For as everything which is not held together by close union, falls out of what is violently shaken, in the very same manner, it seems to me, that the soul is shaken of every man who associates with others for the purpose of doing wrong; for he casts away every appearance of good, so that no shadow or image of it ever appears.

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