Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 307

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[307] 61 Λέγει δὲ ἑξῆς· „ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐγίνετο ὁ ἥλιος πρὸς δυσμαῖς, φλὸξ ἐγένετο“ (Gen. 15,17), δηλῶν ὅτι ἀρετὴ πρᾶγμά ἐστιν ὀψίγονον ¹² καὶ μήν, ὡς ἔφασάν τινες, πρὸς αὐταῖς τοῦ βίου δυσμαῖς βεβαιούμενον. ἀρετὴν δὲ ἀπεικάζει φλογί· καθάπερ γὰρ ἡ φλὸξ καίει μὲν τὴν παραβληθεῖσαν ὕλην, φωτίζει δὲ τὸν γείτονα ἀέρα, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἐμπίπρησι μὲν τὰ ἁμαρτήματα ἡ ἀρετή, φέγγους δὲ τὴν ὅλην ἀναπίμπλησι διάνοιαν.

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.) — 307 focus

In the next verse the historian proceeds to say, "and when the sun approached its setting, there was a flame;" ¹² showing that virtue is a thing which is not born till late, and indeed which, as some persons have said, is only confirmed and established at the very setting of life. And he compares virtue to a flame; for as the flame consumes whatever materials are exposed to it, and gives light to all the air in its neighbourhood, in the same manner does virtue burn up all the offences, and fills the whole mind with light.

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Quis rerum divinarum heres sit

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1 post εὑρεταὶ add. ἐξ ἀπάτης πλανῆσαι D
2 μόνον Pap D: μᾶλλον codd. τοῦ Pap D: τοῦ δὲ codd. πεφροντίκασιν D
3 σκότος] πάθος H
4 Μωσῆς HP
8 ἀναπεπλήρωνται HP
9 απεξελεγκτον Pap
10 ὁλκὸν Mang.: ἐνδίολκον Pap ABGH2, ἔνα δίολκον P(H1) ἔχοντες G ἀπάγεται Pap
11 καὶ prius om. GH2, καὶ γοητεύει e. gr. conicio
12 ἐγκαταμένομεν coni. Maug.
12 πᾶσαι ἀψευδεῖς HP
13 ἀληθῶς Β
14 ἀποδρασόμεθα Pap Η2: ἀποδρασώμεθα ceteri απογαια Pap: ἀπόγεια ABGP2, ἐπίγεια HP1
15 ἐξαναστησόμεθα P
16 ἱπποδρόμοις ΑΒ
17 δὴ om. Pap
18 γὰρ om. codd.
19 πλήρης Pap
19 ἀναφανείη scripsi, ἀναφανεῖν Pap: ἀναφανῆ ἢ ΑΒ, ἀναφανῆναι ἢ GP(H1), ἀναφανῆ H2
20 περιέργως διελεγχθῆναι GHP: περιέργως διαλεχθῆναι Pap, παρέργως διαλεχθῆναι AB τοῦ Pap: om. ABGH. τῆς P
22 ἐγένετο codd, δυσμάς codd.

2. 1.
2 DP fol. 266v (lemma om. Harris p. 92): οἱ πιθανῶν—πεφροντίκασιν. pergit. lin.
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Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 307

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