Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 234

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[234] περιστερᾷ μὲν οὖν ὁ ἡμέτερος νοῦς, ἐπειδὴ τιθασὸν καὶ σύντροφον ¹² ἡμῖν ἐστι τὸ ζῷον, εἰκάζεται, τῷ δὲ τούτου παραδείγματι ἡ τρυγών· ὁ γὰρ θεοῦ λόγος φιλέρημος καὶ μονωτικός, ἐν ὄχλῳ τῷ τῶν γεγονότων καὶ φθαρησομένων οὐχὶ φυρόμενος. ἀλλ’ ἄνω φοιτᾶν εἰθισμένος ἀεὶ καὶ ἑνὶ ὀπαδὸς εἶναι μόνῳ μεμελετηκώς. ἄτμητοι μὲν οὖν αἱ δύο φύσεις,
ἥ τε ἐν ἡμῖν τοῦ λογισμοῦ καὶ ἡ ὑπὲρ ἡμᾶς τοῦ θείου λόγου, ἄτμητοι δὲ οὖσαι μυρία ἄλλα τέμνουσιν.

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.) — 234 focus

[234] For our own mind is here compared to a dove, since that is a creature which is tame and domesticated among us; and the turtle dove is compared to the model presented by the other, that is to say, by the mind of the world, the heaven; for the word of God is fond of retirement, and solitude, and privacy; not mixing itself up with the crowd of things which have been created and will be destroyed, but being at all times accustomed to roam on high, and being anxious to be an attendant only on the one supreme Being. ¹² Therefore, the two natures are indivisible; the nature, I mean, of the reasoning power in us, and of the divine Word above us; but though they are indivisible themselves, they divide an innumerable multitude of other things.

Notes on the current edition

Quis rerum divinarum heres sit

1.
1 τοῖς om. G μετρεῖται codd.
2 τάχα] καταχα Pap, τἄλλα G ἐπεὶ] ἐπὶ Pap GH ἀποτετορευμένος codd. 5. ὁ μετεωροπολεῖν πεφυκότας codd.
6 τόν addidi
7 Μωσῆς GHP
9 ἐποίησεν Pap οὔχι Pap (hiatus pausa excusatur): οὐκ codd. θεοῦ om. codd.
10 ὃς] ὡς Pap
11 καὶ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν κυρίως AB ἐστὶν Pap H
13 γέγονεν Pap
14 ἔπτα Pap (Mang.): ἓξ codd. εἰργάσατο codd.
15 ἀκοήν, γεῦσιν, ὄσφρησιν G: ὄσφρησιν, ἀκοὴν, γεῦσιν Pap, γεῦσιν, ἀκοήν, ὄσφρησιν ceteri φωνὴν, γόνιμον Pap G: γόνιρον, φωνήν HP, γόνιμον (om. φωνήν) ΑΒ δὲ] δὴ Pap
16 ὠνόμασται P ἄσχετον GHP
17 μὲν om. ΑΒ ἐξωτάτω Cohn: ἐξωτάτην codd., ἀνωτάτω Pap (sed. v. De Cherub. § 22)
18 τὸν δὲ οντως εξαχη Pap 19.
20 ἀνθρώπῳ] ἀνθρώπου Pap, οὐρανῶ G
20 ψυχῆι Pap
21 δύο om. AB τὴν ἐν om. ΑΒ
22 δὲ om. Pap διειλεν Pap
23 οὑν addidi τιθασσὸν ABG

2.
17 sqq. cf. Platonis Tim.
36 C (vol. I p. 175,2).

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