Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 136

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[136] ὅσοι τοίνυν τῶν
κλεπτῶν ἰσχὺν προσέλαβον, ὅλας συλῶσι πόλεις ἀλογοῦντες τιμωριῶν διὰ τὸ ἐπικυδέστεροι τῶν νόμων εἷναι δοκεῖν· οὗτοι δ’ εἰσὶν οἱ ὀλιγαρχικοὶ τὰς φύσεις, οἱ τυραννίδων καὶ δυναστειῶν ἐπιθυμοῦντες, οἱ τὰς μεγάλας ἐργαζόμενοι κλοπάς, σεμνοῖς ὀνόμασι τοῖς ἀρχῆς καὶ ἡγεμονίας ἐπικρύπτοντες
λῃστείαν τἀληθὲς ἔργον.

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.) — 136 focus

[136] Therefore as many robbers as have the strength to do so plunder whole cities, paying no attention to the punishments with which they are threatened, because they appear to themselves to be superior to the laws. These are those men who are oligarchical in their natures, who have set their hearts on tyrannies and absolute power, who commit enormous thefts, concealing their robbery, as it is in reality, under the specious and imposing names of authority and supremacy.

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