Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 203

ed. Paul Wendland

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[203] τεθαύμακα δὲ ἔτι μᾶλλον, ἐπειδὰν κατακούων τῶν λογίων ἀναδιδάσκωμαι, ὃν τρόπον εἰσῆλθεν ἡ νεφέλη μέση
τῆς τε Αἰγυπτιακῆς καὶ τῆς Ἰσραηλιτικῆς στρατιᾶς (Exod. 14,20)· ὑπὸ γὰρ τοῦ φιλοπαθοῦς καὶ ἀθέου τὸ ἐγκρατὲς καὶ θεοφιλὲς γένος οὐκέτ’ εἴασε διώκεσθαι τὸ σκεπαστήριον καὶ σωτήριον τῶν φίλων, ἀμυντήριον δὲ καὶ κολαστήριον τῶν ἐχθρῶν ὅπλον, ἡ νεφέλη.

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.) — 203 focus

[203] And I marvel still more, when listening to the sacred oracles I learn from them in what manner "a cloud came in the midst" ¹ between the army of the Egyptians and the company of the children of Israel; for the cloud no longer permitted the race, which is temperate and beloved by God, to be persecuted by that which was devoted to the passions and a foe to God; being a covering and a protection to its friends, but a weapon of vengeance and chastisement against its enemies;

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