Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 160

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[160] ἐπῄνεσε δὲ ὁ θεὸς οὐ τὴν
¹ δημιουργηθεῖσαν ὕλην, τὴν ἄψυχον καὶ πλημμελῆ καὶ διαλυτήν, ἔτι δὲ φθαρτὴν ἐξ ἑαυτῆς ἀνώμαλόν τε καὶ ἄνισον, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ τεχνικὰ ἔργα κατὰ μίαν ἴσην καὶ ὁμαλὴν δύναμιν καὶ ἐπιστήμην ὁμοίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ἀποτελεσθέντα. παρὸ καὶ τοῖς τῆς ἀναλογίας κανόσιν ἴσα καὶ
ὅμοια πάντα πᾶσιν ἐνομίσθη κατὰ τὸν τῆς τέχνης καὶ ἐπιστήμης λόγον.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

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.) — 160 focus

[160] and what God praised was not the materials which he had worked up into creation, destitute of life and of melody, and easily dissolved, and moreover in their own intrinsic nature perishable, and out of all proportion and full of iniquity, but rather his own skilful work, completed according to one equal and well-proportioned power and knowledge always alike and identical. In reference to which all things were also accounted equal and similar by all the rules of proportion, according to the principles of art and knowledge. ¹²

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Quis rerum divinarum heres sit

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1 αἰετῶι Pap μυρμικα Pap
2 ψυχῆι Pap πάθη Pap: πάλιν codd. τε] τε εἶναι ΑΒ 2.3 δὲ καὶ Pap: δὲ codd.
3 οσα Pap: ὅσα ἡ codd. χώρει Pap: χειρὶ GHP1, ἔχει δὴ ABP2 τὰ πάντα codd.
4 αναλογια Pap ὁ κατιδόντες ἑκάτερον ὡς ἐκ ΑΒ τοῦ σώματος H1P
7 λογικοῦ P τόν videtur omisisse Pap
8 ἔφασαν, μέγαν δ’ ἄνθρωπον transpos. ΑΒ ταῦτ’ AB δὲ Pap, om. ΑΒ
10 ανεσιν Pap (Turn.): ἀνάτασιν APH, ἀνάστασιν BG
11 δὲ] δὴ Pap
12 πρός] προ Pap
14 κατὰ om. ΑΒ Μωσῆς ABG
15 σχημάτων G ὑφελόντι Α1
16 τεχνίτου Β μήτε Pap H2: καὶ μήτε ceteri καὶ om. V
18 ἐπαινετῶς Pap, mg. P: πολυτελῶς ceteri
19 εὐτελεστάταις L2 in mg. οὐσίαις] ὕλαις coni. Mang.
20 βουληθεντες Pap (Mang.): βουληθέντας codd.
21 ἐπανορθῶσαι conicio
22 αὐτῆς] αὐτοῦ v
23 τὰ Pap v: om. codd. ὅσα] ἃ G ἐποίησε HP
24 καλα λειαν Pap: ἀγαθὰ πάντα ΑΒ, ἀγαθὰ σφόδρα GHP τοῦ om. GHP
25 επηινεσεν Pap οὐ om. GHP

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 160

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