Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 53

ed. Paul Wendland

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[53] ὅτι
αὕτη μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων“ (Gen. 3, 20), τῶν πρὸς ἀλήθειαν τὸν ψυχῆς τεθνηκότων δήπου βίον. οἱ δὲ ζῶντες ὄντως μητέρα μὲν ἔχουσι σοφίαν, αἴσθησιν δὲ δούλην πρὸς ὑπηρεσίαν ἐπιστήμης ὑπὸ φύσεως δημιουργηθεῖσαν.

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.) — 53 focus

[53] for, says the scripture, "Adam called his wife’s name Eve ( ζωή), because she was the mother of all living," ¹ that is to say, of those who are in real truth dead as to the life of the soul; but they who really live have wisdom for their mother and the outward sense for their slave, which has been created by nature for the purpose of ministering to knowledge;

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