Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 217

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[217] χρυσὸν δ’ οἱ ἐγκωμιάζοντες πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα λέγουσι τῶν εἰς ἔπαινον, δύο
δὲ τὰ ἀνωτάτω, ἓν μέν, ὅτι ἰὸν οὐ παραδέχεται, ἕτερον δέ, ὅτι εἰς ὑμένας λεπτοτάτους ἀρραγὴς διαμένων ἐλαύνεταί τε καὶ χεῖται. σύμβολον οὖν εἰκότως μείζονος φύσεως γέγονε, ἣ ταθεῖσα καὶ κεχυμένη καὶ φθάσασα πάντῃ πλήρης ὅλη δι’ ὅλων ἐστίν, εὐαρμόστως καὶ τὰ ἄλλα συνυφήνασα.

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.) — 217 focus

[217] But those who praise gold say a great many other things by way of panegyric on it, but dwell on two especial points as most particularly important and excellent; one that it does not receive poison, the other that it can be beaten out or melted out into the thinnest possible plates, while still remaining unbroken. Therefore it is very naturally taken as an emblem of that greater nature, which, being extended and diffused every where so as to penetrate in every direction, is wholly full of everything, and also connects all other things with the most admirable arrangement.

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 217

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