Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 48

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[48] τίς γὰρ οὐ τὰς δι’ ὀφθαλμῶν, τίς δ’ οὐ τὰς δι’ ὤτων, τίς δ’ οὐ τὰς διὰ γεύσεως ὀσφρήσεώς τε καὶ
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Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

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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.) — 48 focus

[48] For who is there who is not at times influenced by the pleasures and delights which he receives by means of his eyes, or by those which reach him through the medium of his ears, or of his sense of taste, or of his sense of smell and touch? And who is there who does not hate the contrary things, want and self-denial, and a life of austerity, and seeking after knowledge, which has never any share in amusement or laughter, but is full of gravity, and cares and labours, loving contemplation, an enemy to ignorance, superior to money, and glory, and pleasure, but under the dominion of temperance and true glory, and of that wealth which sees and is not blind? These, then, are at all times the eldest offspring of wisdom.

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 48

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