Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 166

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[166] τὰς δὲ τοῦ ὄντος πρώτας δυνάμεις,
τήν τε χαριστικήν, καθ’ ἣν ἐκοσμοπλάστει, ἣ προσαγορεύεται θεός, καὶ τὴν κολαστικήν, καθ’ ἣν ἄρχει καὶ ἐπιστατεῖ τοῦ γενομένου, ἣ προσονομάζεται κύριος, ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ φησιν ἑστῶτος ἐπάνω μέσου διαστέλλεσθαι· "λαλήσω γάρ σοι“ φησίν „ἄνωθεν τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν δυεῖν Χερουβίμ“ (Exod. 25, 21), ἵν’ ἐπιδείξῃ ὅτι αἱ πρεσβύταται τοῦ ὄντος
δυνάμεις ἰσάζουσιν, ἥ τε δωρητικὴ καὶ κολαστήριος, αὐτῷ τομεῖ χρώμεναι.

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.) — 166 focus

[166] the one his beneficent power, in accordance with which he made the world, and in respect of which he is called God; the other his chastening power, according to which he rules and governs what he has created, in respect of which he is further denominated Lord, and these two he here states to be divided in the middle by him standing above them both. "For," says he, "I will speak to you from above the mercy-seat, in the midst, between the two cherubims;" ¹ that he might show that the most ancient powers of the living God are equal; that is to say, his beneficent and his chastising power, being both divided by the same dividing Word.

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