Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 146

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[146] ἐπειδὰν δὲ λαβών τις ἔννοιαν ἀγαθοῦ μὴ παρόντος ὀρέγηται τυχεῖν αὐτοῦ, πρὸς μήκιστον τὴν ψυχὴν ἐλαύνων καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐκτείνων, ψαῦσαι τοῦ ποθουμένου γλιχόμενος, ὥσπερ
ἐπὶ τροχοῦ κατατείνεται, σπεύδων μὲν συλλαβεῖν, ἐφικνεῖσθαι δ’ ἀδυνατῶν καὶ ταὐτὸν πεπονθὼς τοῖς τοὺς ἐξαναχωροῦντα διώκουσιν ἐλάττονι μὲν τάχει προθυμίᾳ δ’ ἀνανταγωνίστῳ.

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.) — 146 focus

[146] And when any one, having conceived an idea of some good which is not present, hastens to lay hold of it, he then drives his soul forward to a great distance, and extending it in the greatest possible degree, from his anxiety to attain the object of his desires, he is stretched as it were upon the rack, being anxious to lay hold of the thing, but being unable to reach it, and being in the same condition with those who are pursuing people who are running away, following with an inferior speed, but with unrivalled eagerness.

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