Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 276

ed. Paul Wendland

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[276] δογματικῶς δὲ τὸν ἀστεῖον οὐκ ἀποθνῄσκοντα, ἀλλ’
ἀπερχόμενον εἰσήγαγεν, ἵν’ ἄσβεστον καὶ ἀθάνατον τὸ τῆς κεκαθαρμένης ἄκρως ψυχῆς ἀποφανῇ γένος, ἀποδημίᾳ τῇ ἐνθένδε πρὸς οὐρανὸν χρησόμενον, οὐ διαλύσει καὶ φθορᾷ, ἣν ἐπάγειν θάνατος δοκεῖ.

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.) — 276 focus

[276] And there is a particular lesson to be learnt from his representing the good man not as dying but departing, in order to show that the race of the soul, which is completely purified, cannot be extinguished and cannot die, but only departs in the way of migration from this earth to heaven, not undergoing that dissolution and destruction which death appears to bring with it.

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