Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 115

ed. Paul Wendland

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[115] θεὸν ἐξετάζονται μόνον. ἐρεύνησον δέ, εἰ θέλεις γνῶναι, ἕκαστα, φυτά, ζῷα, τέχνας, ἐπιστήμας. ἆρ’ οὖν αἱ πρῶται τῶν φυτῶν σπερματικαὶ καταβολαὶ γεωργίας ἢ τῆς ἀοράτου φύσεώς εἰσιν ἀόρατα ἔργα; τί δ’ αἱ ἀνθρώπων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων γενέσεις; οὐχ ὡσανεὶ μὲν συναιτίους
ἔχουσι τοὺς τοκέας, τὴν δ’ ἀνωτάτω καὶ πρεσβυτάτην καὶ ὡς ἀληθῶς αἰτίαν τὴν φύσιν;

Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 115 focus

[115] and search if you wish to understand everything, plants and animals, and arts and sciences. Are then the first castings of the seed of plants, the actions ¹ of husbandry or the invisible works of invisible nature? What more need I ask? What are the works of men and other animals? Have not they parents as co-operating causes, as it were, and also nature as the primary and more important and real cause?

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