Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 161

ed. Paul Wendland

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[161] 29 ἐζήτει ποτὲ προαχθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ φιλομαθοῦς καὶ τὰς αἰτίας, αἷς τἀναγκαιότατα τῶν ἐν τῷ
κόσμῳ πραγμάτων ἐπιτελεῖται· θεώμενος γὰρ ὅσα ἐν γενέσει φθειρόμενα καὶ γεννώμενα, ἀπολλύμενά τε αὖ καὶ διαμένοντα, τέθηπε καὶ καταπέπληκται καὶ ἐκβοᾷ φάσκων·

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.) — 161 focus

On one occasion Moses was urged on, by a desire of learning, to investigate the causes through which the most necessary of the things in the world are brought to perfection; for seeing how many things come to an end, and are produced afresh in creation, being again destroyed, and again abiding, he marvelled, and was amazed, and cried out, saying, "The bush ( βάτος) burns, and is not consumed." ¹

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