Philo Judaeus De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia 56

ed. Paul Wendland

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[56] τούτου τοῦ πάθους πατὴρ Ἐλιφὰς ἀναγράφεται δεόντως· ἑρμηνεύεται γάρ· θεός με διέσπειρεν. ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὅταν ἀνασκεδάσῃ ἢ διασπείρῃ καὶ σκορακίσῃ τὴν ψυχὴν ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ ὁ θεός, τὸ ἄλογον εὐθὺς γεννᾶται πάθος; τὴν μὲν γὰρ ὁρατικὴν αὐτοῦ φιλόθεον ὄντως διάνοιαν, κληματίδα εὐγενῆ, καταφυτεύει ῥίζας
ἀποτείνων πρὸς ἀιδιότητα καὶ εὐφορίαν καρπῶν διδοὺς πρὸς κτῆσιν καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν ἀρετῶν.

De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the Meeting for the sake of seeking Instruction First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 56 focus

[56] And the father of this passion is very properly described as Eliphah; for this name, being interpreted, means "God has scattered me." But does it not follow that when God scatters, and disperses, and discards the soul, banishing it from himself, irrational passion is at once engendered? For He plants the mind which can really behold him, and which is really attached to God, the vine of a good kind, stretching out its roots so as to make them everlasting, and giving it abundance of fruit for the acquisition and enjoyment of the virtues.

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