Philo Judaeus, De Fuga Et Inventione, ed. Paul Wendland, 93

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[93] ὅτι ἡ Λευιτικὴ φυλὴ νεωκόρων καὶ ἱερέων ἐστίν, οἷς ἡ τῶν ἁγίων ἀνάκειται λειτουργία·
λειτουργοῦσι δὲ καὶ οἱ τὸν ἀκούσιον φόνον δρῶντες, εἴ γε κατὰ Μωυσῆν "ὁ θεὸς παραδίδωσιν εἰς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν“ (Exod. 21, 13) τοὺς θανάτου ἄξια εἰργασμένους πρὸς ἀναίρεσιν. ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν ἐτάχθησαν ἐπὶ τῷ τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς σεμνύνειν, οἱ δ’ ἐπὶ τῷ τοὺς ὑπαιτίους ¹²

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.) — 93 focus

[93] In addition to what has been said above, we must also mention this point, that the tribe of Levi is the tribe of the ministers of the temple and of the priests, to whom the service and ministration of holy things is assigned; and they also perform sacred service who have committed unintentional homicide, since, according to Moses, "God gives into their hands" ¹ those who have done things worthy of death, with a view to their execution. But it is the duty of the one body to know the good, and of the other body to chastise the wicked.

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De fuga et inventione

1.
1 ὅτι addidi
2 ante μόσχον las. in Η
3 κατέκτεινον Η, κατέκτεινεν conicio et lin.
11 χρησαμένη 3.
4 κατοκωχὴ. G: κατακωχῆ H
4 θεοφορήτῳ — κτείνει om. G
5 τὸ G: τοῦ H
7 ἄν G: om. Η
8 ἀκολουθείη G ὁ G: om. H
9 διακοπέντος] διοικισθέντος coni. Mang. αὐτοῦ conicio
10 ἀποβαλούσης Turn.: ἀποβαλλούσης GH
11 χειμάρρουν G
13 διοικίσαντος Turn.: διοικήσαντος GH
15 ἀπολειφθῇ Turn.: ἀποληφθῇ GH
10 γεγωνοῦ λόγου scripsi: γεγωνοῦ G1 (?). γεγονὼς G2, γε τε Mang.) λόγου II
17 ὂν add. Mang.
21 Μωσῆν codd.
23 τῶ τὸ H τῶ G: τὸ H

2. 1—18 ilnd. 2,7.
8 p. 108,7. 8. 19. 20: et ideo exul est mundi: fugitans corporis, fugitans passionum abdicat se omnibus, ut solus remaneat . . . percussus igitur Levitiijo gladio moriatur sensus carnis in nobis, ut vivat anima nostra. 18—22 iliid. 2,8 p. 168,12—15: est etiam ilia causa, quia Levitae ministri sunt dei. et ideo ipsorum civitates fugientibus homicidis per legem deputantur, quia ipsis ius est divina mandata exsequi circa eos qui crimeu mortale admiserint.

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