Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 308

ed. Paul Wendland

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[308] ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἔτι τῶν ἀδιαιρέτων καὶ ἀμερίστων λόγων
ἐπικρατούντων ταῖς πιθανότησιν, οὓς Ἀμορραίους ἀνακαλεῖ, περιφανεστάτην καὶ ἄσκιον αὐγὴν ἰδεῖν οὐ δυνάμεθα· κλιβάνου δ’ εἱλικρινὲς πῦρ οὐκ ἔχοντος, ἀλλ’ ὡς αὐτὸς ἔφη (Gen. 15,17) καπνιζομένου τρόπον διακείμεθα, σπινθῆρσι μὲν τῆς ἐπιστήμης ὑποτυφόμενοι, μήπω δὲ καθαρῷ πυρὶ δοκιμασθῆναι καὶ κραταιωθῆναι δυνάμενοι.

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.) — 308 focus

[308] But while discourses, which are neither divided nor properly distributed, prevail over us by reason of their plausibilities, which he here calls the Amorites, we are not able to see the most brilliant and unshaded light. But we are like a furnace which has not a pure flame, but, as he himself says, emits only smoke, being gradually kindled by the sparks of knowledge, but not as yet being able to stand the hardening and test of pure fire.

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