Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 2

ed. Leopold Cohn

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πρὸς δὲ τοὺς ἀποροῦντας, τί δή ποτε οὐκ ἐν πόλεσιν ἀλλ’ ἐν ἐρήμῳ βαθείᾳ τοὺς νόμους ἐτίθει, λεκτέον πρῶτον μέν, ὅτι αἱ πολλαὶ τῶν πόλεων ἀμυθήτων κακῶν εἰσι p. 181 M. μεσταί, καὶ τῶν πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἀνοσιουργημάτων καὶ τῶν πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἀδικημάτων.

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.) — 2 focus

[2] And to those who raise the question why the lawgiver gave his laws not in cities but in the deep desert, we must say, in the first place, that the generality of cities are full of unspeakable evils, and of acts of audacious impiety towards the Deity, and of injustice on the part of the citizens to one another;

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