Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 169

ed. Paul Wendland

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[169] τῶν μὲν οὖν πρὸς θεὸν δικαίων πρῶτός ἐστι θεσμὸς ὁ ἐναντιούμενος τῇ πολυθέῳ δόξῃ, διδάσκων ὅτι μοναρχεῖται ὁ κόσμος· δεύτερος δὲ ὁ περὶ τοῦ μὴ θεοπλαστεῖν τὰ μὴ αἴτια
γραφέων καὶ πλαστῶν ἐπιβούλοις τέχναις, αἷς Μωυσῆς ἐξήλασε τῆς καθ’ αὑτὸν πολιτείας ἀίδιον φυγὴν ἐπ’ αὐταῖς ψηφισάμενος, ἵν’ ὁ μόνος καὶ p. 497 M. πρὸς ἀλήθειαν τιμᾶται θεός·

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.) — 169 focus

[169] Now of those principles of justice relating to God, the first law enunciated is one which opposes the polytheistic doctrine, and teaches us that the world is ruled over by one sole governor. The second is one forbidding men to make gods of things which are not the causes of anything, by means of the treacherous arts of painters and sculptors, whom Moses banished from his own constitution which he proposed to establish, condemning them to everlasting banishment, in ¹² order that the only true God might be honoured in truth and simplicity.

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