Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 17

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[17] ὁ γὰρ πρὸς τὸ ζῆν ἀφθονίαν δοὺς καὶ τὰς πρὸς τὸ εὖ ζῆν ἀφορμὰς ἐδωρεῖτο· πρὸς μὲν οὖν τὸ ζῆν σιτίων ἔδει καὶ
ποτῶν, ἅπερ ἀνεύρισκον οὐχ ἑτοιμασάμενοι, πρὸς δὲ τὸ εὖ ζῆν νόμων καὶ διαταγμάτων, οἷς βελτιοῦσθαι τὰς ψυχὰς ἔμελλον.

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.) — 17 focus

[17] for they would see that he, who had given them a sufficiency of the means of life was now also giving them a means which should contribute to their living well; accordingly, to live at all required meat and drink which they found, though they had never prepared them; and towards living well, and in accordance with nature and decorum, they required laws and enactments, by which they were likely to be improved in their minds.

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