Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 18

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[18] 5 Αἵδ’ εἰσὶν ἐν στοχασμοῖς εἰκόσιν αἰτίαι λεγόμεναι περὶ τοῦ διαπορηθέντος· τὰς γὰρ ἀληθεῖς οἶδεν ὁ θεὸς μόνος. εἰπὼν δ’ ἅπερ ἥρμοττε περὶ τούτων ἑξῆς αὐτοὺς ἀκριβώσω τοὺς νόμους, ἐκεῖνο κατὰ
τὸ ἀναγκαῖον προμηνύσας, ὅτι τῶν νόμων οὓς μὲν αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς οὐ προσχρησάμενος ἄλλῳ δι’ ἑαυτοῦ μόνου θεσπίζειν ἠξίωσεν, οὓς δὲ διὰ προφήτου Μωυσέως, ὃν ἀριστίνδην ἐκ πάντων ὡς ἐπιτηδειότατον ἱεροφάντην ἐπελέξατο.

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.) — 18 focus

These are the causes which may be advanced by probable conjecture, to explain the question which is raised on this point; for the true causes God alone knows. But having said what is fitting concerning these matters, I shall now proceed in regular order to discuss the laws themselves with accuracy and precision: first of all of necessity, mentioning this point, that of his laws God himself, without having need of any one else, thought fit to promulgate some by himself alone, and some he promulgated by the agency of his prophet Moses, whom he selected, by reason of his preeminent excellence, out of all men, as the most suitable man to be the interpreter of his will.

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 18

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