Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 198

ed. Paul Wendland

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[198] οὐκοῦν ὁ θεός ἐστιν ἡ πρεσβυτάτη πηγή, καὶ μήποτ’ εἰκότως· τὸν γὰρ σύμπαντα τοῦτον κόσμον ὤμβρησε. καταπέπληγμαι δ’ ἀκούων, ὅτι ζωῆς ἐστιν ἥδε ἡ πηγή· μόνος γὰρ ὁ θεὸς ψυχῆς καὶ ζωῆς καὶ διαφερόντως λογικῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τῆς μετὰ φρονήσεως
ζωῆς αἴτιος. ἡ μὲν γὰρ ὕλη νεκρόν, ὁ δὲ θεὸς πλέον τι ἢ ζωή, πηγὴ τοῦ ζῆν, ὡς αὐτὸς εἶπεν, ἀένναος.

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.) — 198 focus

[198] therefore, God is the most ancient of all fountains. And is not this very natural? For he it is who has irrigated the whole of this world; and I am amazed when I hear that this is the fountain of life, for God alone is the cause of animation and life, and most especially of rational animation and of that life which is in ¹²³⁴ union with prudence; for the matter is dead. But God is something more than life; he is, as he himself has said, the everlasting fountain of living.

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