Philo Judaeus, De Fuga Et Inventione, ed. Paul Wendland, 164

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[164] ὁ δ’ ἄρα διὰ πόθον ἐπιστήμης ὑπερκύψας ἅπαντα τὸν κόσμον ζητεῖ περὶ τοῦ κοσμοποιοῦ, τίς ἐστιν ὁ δυσόρατος οὗτος καὶ δυστόπαστος, σῶμα
ἢ ἀσώματος ἢ ὑπεράνω τι τούτων ἢ φύσις ἁπλῆ, οἵα μονάς, ἢ σύγκριμα ἢ τί τῶν ὄντων. καὶ τοῦθ’ ὁρῶν ὡς ἔστι δυσθήρατον καὶ δυσπερινόητον, ¹ εὔχεται παρ’ αὐτοῦ μαθεῖν τοῦ θεοῦ, τίς ἐστιν ὁ θεός· οὐ γὰρ ἤλπισε δυνήσεσθαι γνῶναι παρ’ ἑτέρου τινὸς τῶν μετ’ αὐτόν.

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.) — 164 focus

[164] But he who, out of his desire for learning, has raised his head above the whole world begins to inquire concerning the Creator of the world who this being is who is so difficult to see and whose nature it is so difficult to conjecture, whether he is a body, or an incorporeal being, or something above these things, or whether he is a simple nature like a unit, or a compound being or any ordinary existing thing. And when he sees how difficult to ascertain, and how ¹² difficult to understand this is, he then prays to be allowed to learn from God himself who God is; for he has never hoped to be able to learn this from any other of the beings that are around him.

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De fuga et inventione

1.
2 συνειδὼς Η Μωσῆς GH
4 μόνον H1
5 ἀληθοῦς G2H2: ἀληθῶς G1H1, tum καὶ add., sed rursus del. Η
6 φάσκῃ sciipsi: φάσκει codd. ὁ G: om. H
7 τῶν] τὸν G1 εἰς s. s. G2
8 ποτὲ om. G, ποτὲ ὁ προφήτης φήτης conicio
12 τί G: om. Η οὐ secl. Mang.
13 χῶρον H1: χορὸν G, χῶρον ὡς H2, χῶρον, ὃς Mang.
15 διελθεῖν L1 πάντα G
17 περιεργείας Η
19 τὰς G: στάς, τὰς Η
20 φησὶ γῆ ἁγία G: φησὶν ἅγιος H
21 δηλονότι G ὃν H: ὃ, tum ras. G
22 ἀνθρώπων G: ἄνθρωπον H οὐδὲν ἀνομίσας G1
24 δυσθήρατος coni. Mang.
25 ἀσώματον conicio ἢ φύσις G1H: καὶ φύσις G2
26 ἤ τι v

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