Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 105

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[105] διὰ μὲν δὴ ταῦτα καὶ ἔτι πλείω τετίμηται ἡ ἑβδομάς· ἐπ’ οὐδενὶ δ’ οὕτω προνομίας ἔτυχεν ἢ
τῷ μάλιστα τὸν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τῶν ὅλων ἐμφαίνεσθαι δι’ αὐτῆς· ὡς γὰρ διὰ κατόπτρου φαντασιοῦται ὁ νοῦς θεὸν δρῶντα καὶ κοσμοποιοῦντα καὶ τῶν ὅλων ἐπιτροπεύοντα.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 105 focus

[105] For all these reasons, and more besides, the number seven is honoured. But there is no one cause on account of which it has received its precedence so completely, as because it is by its means that the Creator and Father of the universe is most especially made manifest; for the mind beholds God in this as in a mirror, acting, and creating the world, and managing the whole universe.

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