Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 280

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[280] ἀθρόα καὶ νέα ὤμβρησεν ἀγαθά; 57 πατέρας οὖν οὐχ ὧν μετανάστατος ἐγένετο ἡ ψυχὴ καλεῖ τοὺς ἐν τοῖς Χαλδαϊκοῖς κατορωρυγμένους μνήμασιν, ἀλλ’ ὡς μὲν ἔνιοί φασιν, ἥλιον καὶ σελήνην καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀστέρας — τὴν γὰρ τῶν κατὰ γῆν ἁπάντων γένεσιν διὰ τούτων λόγος ἔχει συνίστασθαι —, ὡς δέ τινες νομίζουσι, τὰς ἀρχετύπους ἰδέας, τὰ
νοητὰ καὶ ἀόρατα ἐκεῖνα τῶν αἰσθητῶν καὶ ὁρωμένων τούτων παραδείγματα, πρὸς ἃ τὴν τοῦ σοφοῦ διάνοιαν μετοικίζεσθαι.

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.) — 280 focus

Therefore, when he says "fathers," he means not those whose souls have departed from them, and who are buried in the tombs of the land of Chaldea; but, as some say, the sun, and the moon, and the other stars; for some affirm that it is owing to these bodies that the nature of all the things in the world has its existence. But as some other persons think he means the archetypal ideas, those models of these things which are perceptible by the outward senses and visible; which models, however, are only perceptible by the intellect and invisible; and that it is to these that the mind of the wise man emigrates.

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 280

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