Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 152

ed. Paul Wendland

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[152] ἡνίκα ἂν τὰ διαφέροντα
ἀδιαφόρων ἀντικαταλλάξηται, τῶν γνησίων ἀγαθῶν τὰ νόθα προτιμήσασα· γνήσια μὲν οὖν ἀγαθὰ πίστις, εἱρμὸς καὶ ἀκολουθία λόγων πρὸς ἔργα, παιδείας κανὼν ὀρθῆς, ὡς ἔμπαλιν κακὰ ἀπιστία, τὸ ἀνακόλουθον, ἀπαιδευσία, τὰ δὲ νόθα, ὅσα τῆς ἀλόγου φορᾶς ἀπῃώρηται.

De Fuga Et Inventione. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Fuga Et Inventione (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On Fugitives First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 152 focus

[152] And when will this be? when she willingly exchanges what is of importance for what is indifferent, preferring spurious to genuine good. Now the genuine good things are faith, the connection and union of words with deeds, and the rule of right instruction, as on the other hand the evils are, faithlessness, a want of such connection between words and deeds, and ignorance. And spurious goods are those which depend upon appetite devoid of reason;

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