Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 15

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[15] 4 φασὶ δέ τινες καὶ τετάρτην αἰτίαν οὐκ ἀπῳδὸν ἀλλ’ ἐγγυτάτω τῆς ἀληθείας· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἔδει πίστιν ἐγγενέσθαι ταῖς διανοίαις περὶ τοῦ μὴ εὑρήματα ἀνθρώπου τοὺς νόμους ἀλλὰ θεοῦ χρησμοὺς σαφεστάτους
εἶναι, πορρωτάτω τῶν πόλεων ἀπήγαγε τὸ ἔθνος εἰς ἐρήμην βαθεῖαν ¹² καὶ ἄγονον οὐ μόνον ἡμέρων καρπῶν ἀλλὰ καὶ ποτίμου ὕδατος, ἵν’,

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.) — 15 focus

And some persons say that there is also a fourth cause which is not inconsistent with, but as near as possible to the truth; for that, as it was necessary that a conviction should be implanted in the minds of men that these laws were not the inventions of men, but the most indubitable oracles of God, he on that account, led the people as far as possible from the cities into the deep wilderness, which was barren not only of all fruits that admitted of cultivation,

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De decalogo

1.
1 ἀπορρίψασθαι M καθάρασθαι M 1.
2 δυσεκπλήτους G, δυσεκπλύκτους P
3 πόλιν M
5 ἀνομημάτων M 6.
7 οἱ περὶ τὴν ἰατρικὴν AP
7 γὰρ om. M Arm καὶ ποτὰ om. II (v)
8 παρασχεῖν Vind. ἀξιοῦντες M πρὶν om. M
9 ἀλλὰ καὶ M: om. ceteri (v) γενόμεναι M
10 πόλεις Mang. (sic Arm): πόλιν codd.
11 ἐρήμην codd.: ἔρημον Mang. 12.13 λόγοι καὶ νόμοι M
13 δ’ ἐστὶν M
14 λιμένος FH: λιμένων MAPCi
15 μένοντες] μὲν ὄντες Arm
16 εὐτρεπίζοντες Η
18 πολιτεύωνται Turn. ἡτοιμασμένους M τοὺς om. Turn.
19 εὖ ἀσκηθέντας Arm ἤμελλον H
20 χρησομένοις M
21 ἐν Α: ἐφ’ ceteri (Turn.) ὁμονοίᾳ] ὁμοία Η διαμονὴ Α ἐπιβαλόντων F
22 ἀπῳδὸν] ἀπᾴδουσαν M
23 διανοίαις αὐτῶν Arm
25 ἔρημον F (Mang.)

2. 6—9 Vindob. hist. gr.
67 fol. 56v: τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον — τοῦ πάθου

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 15

ed. Leopold Cohn

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