Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 240

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[240] πάσης οὖν βαρυδαιμονίας ἀναπεπλῆσθαι νομιστέον ἐκείνας, αἵτινες ἐν ἀέρι καὶ αἰθέρι τῷ καθαρωτάτῳ τραφεῖσαι
μετανέστησαν τὸν θείων ἀγαθῶν κόρον οὐ p. 507 M. δυνηθεῖσαι φέρειν ἐπὶ τὸ θνητῶν καὶ κακῶν χωρίον γῆν. ἐπιφοιτῶσι δ’ ἔννοιαι μυρίαι περὶ μυρίων πραγμάτων ὅσων, αἱ μὲν ἑκούσιοι, αἱ δὲ κατ’ ἄγνοιαν, οὐδὲν διαφέρουσαι πτηνῶν, αἷς τὰ κατιόντα ἐξωμοίωσεν ὄρνεα.

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.) — 240 focus

[240] We must, therefore, think that they are full of every description of misery, which, having been brought up in the air, and in the aether which is the purest of all things, have changed their abode (not being able to bear the satiety of divine things), and have descended to that mortal and evil district, the earth. And there are innumerable imaginations concerning an innumerable variety of things which roam about upon it also; some voluntary, and some out of ignorance, which are in no respect different from winged creatures, and which Moses compares to the birds that come down.

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 240

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