Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 4

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[4] διὸ καὶ Μωυσῆς ἰσχνόφωνος ὁμολογεῖ καὶ βραδύγλωσσος γενέσθαι, ἀφ’ οὗ ἤρξατο ὁ θεὸς αὐτῷ διαλέγεσθαι ¹² (Exod. 4, 10). καὶ ἀψευδής ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ προφήτου μαρτυρία· τότε γὰρ εἰκὸς τὸ μὲν φωνητήριον ὄργανον ἐπέχεσθαι, τὸν δὲ κατὰ διάνοιαν λόγον ἀρθρούμενον ἀνυποτάκτῳ φορᾷ χρῆσθαι, νοημάτων οὐ ῥημάτων ἐπάλληλα κάλλη μετ’ εὐτρόχου καὶ ὑψηγόρου δυνάμεως φιλοσοφοῦντα.

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.) — 4 focus

[4] on which account Moses confesses that he is "a man of a slight voice and slow of speech from the time when God first began to converse with him." ¹ And this testimony of the prophet is unerring; for it is natural for the organs of speech to be checked, and for the reason which is collected in the mind to be borne onwards with unrestrained impetuosity, philosophically examining the unceasing beauty of ideas not of words, with fluent and sublime power;

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Quis rerum divinarum heres sit

1. φίλωνος Pap: φίλωνος ἰουδαίου ΑΒ, τοῦ αὐτοῦ P, om. OGH ἐστιν Pap Eus: πραγμάτων codd. καὶ περὶ—τομῆς om. OP καὶ] ἡ Pap Eus εἰς τὰ ἴσα Pap Eus: ἴσα codd.
1 συνταξει Pap: βίβλῳ codd. τὰ πέρι Pap: περὶ codd.
2 νυν Pap ζητεῖν om. Pap 3.
4 θεσπισθεντος ὁ add. ex codd.) σοφὸς ἤκουσε λογίου Pap: θεσπισθέντος λογίου τοιούτου ὁ σοφὸς ἤκουσεν codd. ἤκουεν Α
4 έσται Pap: om. codd.
5 δέσποτα τι μοι Pap: τί μοι, δέσποτα codd. ἀπολύομαι Pap: ἀπελεύσομαι codd. ὁ Μασεκ Pap (Mang.): μου ὀ ἐκ codd. οἰκογενοῦς Pap: ἱκέτιδος O, οἰκέτιδος ceteri μου om. Α κληρονομήσει (κληρονομήσειέ Ο) με add. post μου codd., om. Pap 7 om. Pap (probat Cohn)
9 εἰ καὶ OAB
10 αἱ om. OAB
11 αἱ Pap N: om. ceteri Μωσῆς codd. N 11.
12 καὶ βραδύγλωσσος ὁμολογεῖ transpos. codd. N

2. 8—2,4 καίτοι—φιλοσοφοῦντα N fol. 165r.

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 4

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