Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 172

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[172] μεθόριος δ’ ὁ θεσμὸς οὗτος ἐγράφη τῆς τε πρὸς εὐσέβειαν τεινούσης πεντάδος καὶ τῆς ἀποτροπὰς τῶν πρὸς τοὺς ὁμοίους ἀδικημάτων περιεχούσης, ἐπειδήπερ ¹² οἱ θνητοὶ γονεῖς τέλος εἰσὶν ἀθανάτων δυνάμεων, αἳ πάντα γεννῶσαι κατὰ φύσιν ἐπέτρεψαν ὑστάτῳ καὶ τῷ θνητῷ γένει μιμησαμένῳ τὴν περὶ τὸ γεννᾶν τέχνην σπείρειν· ἀρχὴ μὲν γὰρ γενέσεως ὁ θεός, τὸ δ’ ἔσχατον καὶ ἀτιμότατον, τὸ θνητὸν εἶδος, τέλος.

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.)

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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.) — 172 focus

[172] And this command is placed, as it were, on the borders between the two tables of laws relating to God and those relating to man, and so it bounds the five which concern piety, and that five also which comprehend a prevention of injury to one’s fellows. Since mortal parents are the boundaries of the immortal powers, which, generating everything according to nature, have permitted this lowest and mortal race to imitate their own powers of generation, and so to propagate its own seed; for God is the beginning of all generation, and the mortal species of mankind, being the lowest and least honoured of all, is the end.

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Quis rerum divinarum heres sit

1.
1 οὐ δύο scripsi: ouo’ Pap, δύο codd.
2 παιδευθηνεται καὶ Pap
3 μόνου Pap: om. codd. b ἀυταῖς Pap: ταύταις codd. εἰσιν Pap ὁ ἕτερα Pap: δευτέρα codd.
8 εστιν Pap
9 alt. ὁ Pap: om. codd.
10 αἷς Pap : ἃς codd. Mouarj? codd. ἐξήλασεν Pap
11 καθ’ αὐτὸν Pap: κατ’ αὐτὸν codd. αὐτοῖς codd. ποιησάμενος GIPP, ψήφῳ s. s. U- - ἴνα Pap
12 ὁ Pap: om. codd.
13 οὐ τοῦ addidi, -οὐχ ὃ Mang. ὃ οὐδ’ ἦλθεν Pap ΑΒ: ὁ οὐ διῆλθεν GP-, οὐχ διῆλθεν IP, διῆλθεν H^P’ τὸ ὂν Pap: τοὔνομα codd.
14 διειρηδιείρηταί Pap (Mang.): ἀεί. εἴρηται codd.
15 ὁ Pap: om. codd. ἀεὶ παρθένου ΑΒ
19 γενήσεως, γεννήσεως Β (Mang.)
20 γεννήσεως Mang. 20.
21 θεσμὸς Pap: yρησμὸς codd.
21 ἐγράφη Pap: ἐτάγη codd. τε om. B τεινουτεινούσης Pap: τε ἴσης G, ἴσης HP, ἴσως ΑΒ, οὔσης v
22 ἀποτροπῆς GHP, ἀποτροπὴν V τοὺς om. ΑΒ

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2 Clem. Alex. Strom. VI § 134 p. SOSP: δισσῶς (δισσαί?), ὡς ἔοικεν, γράφονται δισσοῖς πνεύμασιν ἐντολαί (sic Sylburgius pro ἐντολαῖς), τῷ τε ἡγεμονικῷ τῷ τε ὑποκειμένῳ. 1-36 p. 809: εἰκότως τοίνυν αἱ δύο πλάκες τοῖς δισσοῖς πνεύμασι τὰς δεδομένας ἐντολάς, τῷ τε πλασθέντι τῷ τε ἡγεμονικῷ, .... ἀλλαχῇ εἴρηνται μηνύειν.

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