Philo Judaeus De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia 90

ed. Paul Wendland

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[90] τὰ δὲ καίρια οὐ παρετέον. αὐτίκα τὸν Νῶε ἡμῖν — πρῶτος δ’ οὗτος δίκαιος ἐν ταῖς ἱεραῖς ἀνερρήθη γραφαῖς — ἀπὸ τοῦ διαπλασθέντος ἐκ γῆς εἰσάγει
δέκατον, οὐκ ἐνιαυτῶν πλῆθος παραστῆσαι βουλόμενος, ἀλλὰ διδάξαι σαφῶς, ὅτι ὥσπερ δεκὰς ἀριθμῶν τῶν ἀπὸ μονάδος ἐστὶ πέρας τελειότατον, οὕτω τὸ δίκαιον ἐν ψυχῇ τέλειον καὶ πέρας ὄντως τῶν κατὰ τὸν βίον πράξεων.

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.) — 90 focus

[90] In the first place he represents Noah to us (and this man is the first who is specially entitled just, in the holy scriptures), as the tenth in succession from him who was formed out of the earth, not intending by this statement to indicate the number ¹²³⁴ of years that had elapsed, but rather to show clearly that as the decade is the most perfect boundary and end of the numbers which proceed onwards from the unit, so also just in the soul is the perfection and true end of the actions of human life.

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