Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 97

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[97] τὸ μὲν οὖν πάλαι δωρηθὲν ἀγαθὸν ἔξοδος ἦν
ἀπὸ τῆς Χαλδαϊκῆς μετεωρολογίας, ἥτις ἀνεδίδασκεν οὐ θεοῦ ἔργον, ἀλλὰ θεὸν ὑπολαμβάνειν τὸν κόσμον εἶναι καὶ τό τε εὖ καὶ τὸ χεῖρον ἅπασι τοῖς οὖσι φοραῖς καὶ τεταγμέναις περιόδοις ἀστέρων ἀριθμεῖσθαι καὶ ἐνθένδε τὴν ἀγαθοῦ καὶ κακοῦ γένεσιν ἠρτῆσθαι — ταῦτα δ’ ἡ τῶν κατ’ οὐρανὸν ὁμαλὴ καὶ τεταγμένη κίνησις τοὺς εὐχερεστέρους ἀνέπεισε
τερατεύεσθαι· καὶ γὰρ τὸ Χαλδαίων ὄνομα μεταληφθὲν ὁμαλότητι ¹² παρωνυμεῖ —,

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.) — 97 focus

[97] for the good which was previously bestowed upon him was the departure from the Chaldaean philosophy, which was occupied about the things of the air, which taught men to suppose that the world was not the work of God, but was God himself; and that good and evil is caused in the case of all existing things, by the motions and fixed periodical revolutions of the stars, and that on these motions the origin of all good and evil depends; and the equable ( ὁμαλή) and regular motion of these bodies in heaven, persuaded those simple men to look upon these things as omens, for the name of the Chaldaeans being interpreted is synonymous with equability ( όμαλότης).

Notes on the current edition

Quis rerum divinarum heres sit

1.
2 μιστω Pap
3 ὀλυμπίας OAB ἔργον διανοίας Pap: διανοίας ἔργον codd. οὐκέτι πρὸς οὐδενὸς Pap: πρὸς οὐδενός οὐκέτι codd.
4 δὲ] δάι Pap
5 αὐτῶν OAB οὐδὲν οὕτως Pap G: οὕτως οὐδὲν ceteri
7 ακουλοθον Pap τοῦτο om. HP1 ἐνομίσθη] ἔδοξε OAB
9 aute οἶς add. οἷς αἱ δούλων G
10 πάρα Pap
11 δὲ ΑΒ αὐτῶ G
12 εἶπεν Pap ος (εξηγαγε) σε Pap (?)
13 εκ χωρας Pap: ἀπὸ χώρας G, ἐκ γῆς ceteri
14 τοῦθ’ Pap τοῦτο OAB οὐχ om., sed οὐχὶ aiite μόνον habent PH1
15 ἀγαθὸν] τῶ Ἁβραάμ ἀγαθόν D R, τῶ Ἀβραὰμ D H
17 τὸν κόσμον εἶναι ὑπολαμβάνειν ΑΒ, εἶναι τὸν κόσμον ὑπολαμβάνειν Ο, ὑπολαμβάνειν εἶναι τὸν κόσμον D H (?)
18 ἐν Mang. ex Mss. (?) ἅπασιν Pap οὖσιν Pap περιόδοις ἀστέρων GDH, περιόδοις ἄστρων D R: ἀστέρων περιόδοις ceteri ἀριθμεῖσθαι] ἁρμόττεσθαι coni. Mang.
19 δ’ ἡ scripsi: δὴ GHPD, δέ Pap OAB
20 κατ’] ἡ add. ante ὁμαλὴ AOBH2 ὁμαλὴ] μαλακὴ OAB τεταγμένη Pap D H2: ἐκτεταμένη ceteri ἀνέπεισε Pap D: ἔπεισε codd.
21 Χαλδαῖον PD R μεταλημφθεν Pap ονοματητι Pap, ὁμαλότητα L

2. 15—23,13 D R fol. 47r Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ τίς ὁ τῶν θείων κληρονόμος D H fol. Φίλωνος: τὸ μὲν πάλαι — διαδοχῆς.

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 97

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