Philo Judaeus De Josepho 123

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[123] τίς γὰρ ἂν προσεδόκησε μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀντὶ μὲν δούλου δεσπότην, ἀντὶ δὲ δεσμώτου πάντων ἀξιονικότατον, p. 59 M. καὶ τὸν ὑποδιάκονον εἱρκτοφύλακος ὕπαρχον βασιλέως ἔσεσθαι καὶ ἀντὶ τῆς εἱρκτῆς τὰ βασίλεια οἰκήσειν,
τὰ πρῶτα τῶν ἐπὶ τιμαῖς φερόμενον ἀντὶ τῶν εἰς ἀτιμίαν ἐσχάτων. ἀλλ’ ὅμως καὶ γέγονε ταῦτα καὶ γενήσεται πολλάκις, ὅταν δοκῇ τῷ θεῷ·

De Josepho. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Josepho (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 4. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1902.)

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On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State, or on Joseph First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 123 focus

[123] For who would ever have expected that in one day the same man would become a master from having been a slave, and from having been a prisoner would rise up the most illustrious of men, and that the under turnkey of the keeper of the prison would become the king’s lieutenant, and that he would dwell in the king’s palace instead of in the gaol, having the highest honour in the whole land instead of being held in the greatest disrepute?

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