Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 128

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[128] παγχάλεπόν γε μὴν p. 202 M. καὶ ὁ τῶν τέκνων ¹² ἐπαμφοτερισμός· μὴ γὰρ ἁγνευούσης γυναικός, ἀμφίδοξον καὶ ἄδηλον, τὰ ἀποκυόμενα τίνος ἐστὶ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ πατρός· εἶτα λανθάνοντος τοῦ πράγματος, οἱ μοιχίδιοι τὴν τῶν γνησίων παρασπασάμενοι τάξιν ἀλλοτρίαν γενεὰν νοθεύουσι καὶ κλῆρον ὅσον τῷ δοκεῖν πατρῷον οὐδὲν προσήκοντα διαδέξονται.

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.) — 128 focus

[128] Moreover, the doubt as to the legitimacy of the children is a most terrible evil.

For if the wife be not chaste, it is quite a matter of doubt and uncertainty to what father the children belong. And then, if the matter remain undiscovered, the children of adultery enter unjustly into the classification of legitimate children, and make a race spurious to which they have no pretensions to belong, and receive an inheritance which in appearance indeed is their own patrimony, but which in reality has no connection with them.

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De decalogo

1. l Arm τοῦτο AP
2 φιληδονίαν Arm Nicet.: φιληδονίας codd. ἡ] οἳ AP
3 τόνους ἐκλύει transp. AP τὰς μεγίστας οὐσίας Arm
4 μηδὲ ἓν Nicet.
5 τῶν om. Η (Turn.) ἔπειτα P
6 διδάσκειν G (coni. Mang.): διδάσκει ceteri συναδικεῖν διδάσκει transp. Arm
7 τοῦ (sic codd. Arm Nicet.) seclusi; τούτου Mang. λαβεῖν] εὑρεῖν AP (Turn.)
10 τοῦτο Nicet. ἔνεστιν] ἔστιν G
11 μοιχωμένης AP
13 τρόπον om. F ἣν om. M
14 ἐμφανὲς ἐπεδείκνυτο transp. Nicet.
15 ante δυσυπονόητον add. καὶ AP, δυσύποιστον καὶ add. Nicet.
16 δόξαν τοῦ φιλεῖν transp. M
17 ἀποδείκνυ(??)σιν G, ἀποδείκνυσιν AP
18 παρασπενδομένου H (Turn.) ὃς Markland (Mang.): οὐ G Nicet., om. ceteri
19 παρακόπτεται M, περικόπτουσι Nicet. δὲ AP
20 τόν τε τοῦ] τοῦ τε AP alt. τὸν Arm (coni. Mang.): om. codd.
21 ὕβρεων Nicet. ἀναπίμπλανται H (Turn.) κἂν γὰρ Arm
22 μὲν om. Nicet. (fort. recte)

2. 1— 298,14 Nicetae Serrani Catena in Lucam (Vat. 1611 fol. 245v) Φίλωνος: μέγιστον ἀδικημάτων ἐστὶν ἡ μοιχεία. πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ — πρῶτον ἀδικημάτων ἀνεγράφη.

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 128

ed. Leopold Cohn

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