Philo Judaeus, De Fuga Et Inventione, ed. Paul Wendland, 168

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →

[168] καινὸν γὰρ καὶ κρεῖττον λόγου καὶ θεῖον
ὄντως τὸ αὐτομαθὲς γένος, οὐκ ἀνθρωπίναις ἐπινοίαις, ἀλλ’ ἐνθέῳ μανίᾳ συνιστάμενον. ἢ ἀγνοεῖς ὅτι οὐ δέονται πρὸς τὸν τόκον μαιῶν ¹² Ἑβραῖαι, „τίκτουσι“ δ’, ὥς φησι Μωυσῆς, „πρὶν εἰσελθεῖν τὰς μαίας“ (Exod. 1, 19), λέγω δὲ μεθόδους, τέχνας, ἐπιστήμας, φύσει μόνῃ χρώμεναι συνεργῷ; παγκάλους δὲ καὶ προσφυεστάτους ὅρους ἀποδίδωσι τοῦ αὐτομαθοῦς, ἕνα μὲν τοιοῦτον, τὸ ταχὺ εὑρισκόμενον, ἕτερον δὲ
„ὃ παρέδωκεν ὁ θεός“.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

On Fugitives First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 168 focus

[168] For the self-taught race is something new, and beyond any description, and truly divine, existing not by any human conceptions, but by some inspired frenzy. Are you ignorant that the Hebrews stand in no need of midwives for their delivery? But they, as Moses says, "bring forth before the midwives can arrive," by which is meant that they have nature alone for a coadjutor, without having any need of methods, or arts, or sciences. And Moses gives very beautiful and very natural definitions of what is taught a man by himself; one being such a thing ¹² as is speedily discovered, the other what God himself has given us;

Notes on the current edition

De fuga et inventione

1.
3 ἴσχυσε Mang.: ἤκουσε codd. ὄντως G, ὄντως ὄντος conicio ἐρευνᾶν codd. (Mang.): ἐρευνῶν Turn.
4 οὐ GH2: om. H1
5 ἑπόμενα καὶ GD: om. H
6 δ’] δέ γε D τῴ om. D
9 προτεθέντων L
10 προαπαντᾶν ᾶν e corr. H2
11 σκέψει G
13 ἧς in ras. G et 2 ἀκράτου H (sed του H2 in ras.): ἀκρατοῦς G διετέλεσε G (Mang.): διετελέσθη H
16 δ’ H
17 γενόμενος H1 18.
19 ἐπιτηδεύσει— λέγεται τὰ in mg. Η2
19 αὐτῶ G ἐκλείπειν H
20 κενὸν L 21.
22 ἐνθεομανία H

2.
4 —
7 DC fol. 44r: ἐκ τοῦ περὶ φυγῆς καὶ εὑρέσεως: αὔταρκες ἐστὶν—ἔσται.
10 sqq. Ambros. de fuga saeculi 8,47: paritura laetitiam et sobriam illam iocunditatis ebrietatem, paritura ante expectatum ingenii celeritate partus, feta sapientiae. 22—147,3 ibid.: denique et de aliis Hebraeis mulieribus habes quia Hebraeae prius pariunt quam veniant obstetrices, eo quod animae iustorum non expectent artes et disciplinas propter inventionum genera nec requirant adiumenta generandi, sed sponte partus suos fundant expectationemque praeveniant.

Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 168

ed. Paul Wendland

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Current edition First1KGreek

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers