Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 160

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[160] καὶ ἔτι τὴν ἐν ᾗ προσφέρεται δράγμα χαριστήριον εὐγονίας καὶ φορᾶς τῆς πεδιάδος δι’ ἀσταχύων πληρώσεως· καὶ τὴν
ἀπὸ ταύτης καταριθμουμένην ἑπτὰ ἑβδομάσι πεντηκοστὴν ἡμέραν, ἐν ᾗ προσάγειν ἄρτους ἔθος, οἳ καλοῦνται πρωτογεννημάτων ἐτύμως, ἐπειδήπερ εἰσὶν ἀπαρχὴ γεννημάτων καὶ καρπῶν ἡμέρου τροφῆς, ἣν ἀνθρώπῳ τῷ ἡμερωτάτῳ ζῴων ἀπένειμεν ὁ θεός.

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.) — 160 focus

[160] And also the day on which is offered the sheaf of corn, as an offering of gratitude for the fertility and productiveness of the plain, as exhibited in the fulness of the ears of corn. And the day of pentecost, which is numbered from this day by seven portions of seven days, in which it is the custom to offer up loaves, which are truly called the loaves of the first fruits, since, in fact, they are the first fruits of the productions and crops of eatable grain, which God has given to mankind, as the most tractable of all his creatures.

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