Philo Judaeus, De Josepho, ed. Leopold Cohn, 145

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[145] σελήνη μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἥλιος καὶ ὁ σύμπας οὐρανὸς σαφεῖς καὶ ἀριδήλους ἔχει τὰς τρανότητας, ἅτε πάντων τῶν p. 62 M. κατ’ αὐτὸν ὁμοίων μενόντων καὶ τοῖς τῆς ἀληθείας αὐτῆς
μετρουμένων κανόσιν ἐν τάξεσιν ἐναρμονίοις καὶ συμφωνιῶν ταῖς ἀρίσταις, τὰ δ’ ἐπίγεια πολλῆς ἀταξίας γέμοντα καὶ ταραχῆς ἀσύμφωνα καὶ ἀνάρμοστα, ὡς κυριώτατα φάναι, ὅτι ταῦτα μὲν βαθὺ σκότος κατείληφεν, ἐκεῖνα δ’ ἐμφέρεται τηλαυγεστάτῳ φωτί, μᾶλλον δ’ αὐτὸ φῶς ἐστιν εἱλικρινέστατον καὶ καθαρώτατον.

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.) — 145 focus

[145] The moon and the sun, indeed, and the whole of the heaven has clearness bright and distinct, inasmuch as all things are alike which exist permanently in the heaven; and as they are all measured by the rules of truth itself, in harmonious order and in the most admirable agreement. But as for earthly things, which are full of great disorder and confusion, they are inharmonious and discordant, to speak with perfect correctness, so that dense darkness has overtaken some of them, while others resemble the most brilliant light, or rather they are themselves the clearest and purest of light.

Philo Judaeus De Josepho 145

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