Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 142

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[142] 28 τελευταῖον δ’ ἐπιθυμεῖν ἀπαγορεύει νεωτεροποιὸν καὶ ἐπίβουλον τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν εἰδώς. πάντα μὲν γὰρ τὰ ψυχῆς πάθη χαλεπά,
κινοῦντα καὶ σείοντα αὐτὴν παρὰ φύσιν καὶ ὑγιαίνειν οὐκ ἐῶντα, χαλεπώτατον δ’ ἐπιθυμία· διὸ τῶν μὲν ἄλλων ἕκαστον θύραθεν ἐπεισιὸν καὶ προσπῖπτον ἔξωθεν ἀκούσιον εἶναι δοκεῖ, μόνη δ’ ἐπιθυμία τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐξ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν λαμβάνει καὶ ἔστιν ἑκούσιος.

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.) — 142 focus

Last of all, the divine legislator prohibits covetousness, knowing that desire is a thing fond of revolution and of plotting against others; for all the passions of the soul are formidable, exciting and agitating it contrary to nature, and not permitting it to remain in a healthy state, but of all such passions the worst is desire. On which account each of the other passions, coming in from without and attacking the soul from external points, appears to be involuntary; but this desire alone derives its origin from ourselves, and is wholly voluntary.

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