Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 104

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[104] οὐκ ἐπειδὴ πεπλάνηταί τι τῶν κατὰ τὸν οὐρανὸν θείας καὶ μακαρίας καὶ εὐδαίμονος φύσεως μετεσχηκότων, οἷς πᾶσι τὸ ἀπλανὲς οἰκειότατον — τὴν γοῦν ἐν ὁμοίῳ
ταυτότητα σῴζοντα δολιχεύει τὸν αἰῶνα μηδεμίαν ἐνδεχόμενα τροπὴν καὶ μεταβολήν —, ἀλλ’ ὅτι περιπολοῦνται ὑπεναντίως τῇ ἀμερίστῳ καὶ ¹ ἐξωτάτω σφαίρᾳ, πλάνητες ὠνομάσθησαν οὐ κυρίως ὑπ’ ἀνθρώπων εἰκαιοτέρων, οἳ τὴν ἰδίαν πλάνην τοῖς οὐρανίοις ἐπεφήμισαν, ἃ τὴν τοῦ θείου στρατοπέδου τάξιν οὐδέποτε λείπει.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

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Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads of the Law First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 104 focus

[104] not indeed that any of the heavenly bodies do really wander ( πεππλάνηται), inasmuch as they all enjoy a divine, and happy, and blessed nature, to all of which characteristics a freedom from wandering is most closely akin: at all events, they always preserve a kind of identity in a constantly similar motion, and pass a long eternity without ever admitting any change or variation whatever. But because they revolve in a manner contrary to the indivisible and outermost sphere, they have been named planets ( πλάνητες), though without any strict propriety, by men speaking at random, who have by such language attributed their own propensity to wander to the heavenly bodies, which, in fact, never quit that position in the divine lamp in which they have been originally placed.

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De decalogo

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1 ἑβδομάδας] ἑβδόμας voluit Mang. ’2 ἱκανωτάτην M
3 προθεσμία F ἓν om. Arm ἑξαήμερον Christophorson (Mang.): ἑξάμετρον codd., ἑξὰς μέτρον Arm
5 ἡ om. M
8 αὐτὸ AP, αὐτὸ ex αὐτὸν corr. H: αὐτὸν MFG
10 πράττειν MH: τὸ πράττειν ceteri \’2 μηδὲ] μὴ conicio χρόνων MFGH: χρόνου AP (v) ; lρόνων μήκους conicio
14 πάνυ] πάντη AP, πάνυ post πεφροντισμένως (l.’j) trausp. H (Turn.)
15 ἀνι·ι̣νεύσαντες AP Ifi ἡ ἰδέα] καὶ ἰδέα L (Turn.)
17 ἐπεὶ καὶ] ἐπὶ δὲ Arm ἡ μονάς AI’
18 ὁ οὐρανὸς, ὁ eras. P rj δὲ MAP ὁ ora. AP τῆς ἀμερίστου F: τῆς om. ceteri (v)
20 περιφορὰν] σφαῖραν coni. Mang.
21 ἡ μονὰς Arm τάξιν Α
23 πλανήτας FH
24 κατ’ οὐρανὸν H (v)
25 ὁμοίῳ] ὁμοιότητι Arin
27 ὅτι M: ὅτι καὶ ceteri (v) περιπολοῦνται G: περιπολοῦντα APFH, -..ολοῦντες M ὐἶεναντίω,] ἐναντίως Η (v) περι-

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 104

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