Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 26

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[26] ἀρχέτυποι δὲ τούτων ἀριθμοὶ τοῦ μὲν ἀδιαστάτου σημείου τὸ ἕν, τῆς δὲ γραμμῆς τὰ δύο, καὶ ἐπιφανείας μὲν τρία,
στερεοῦ δὲ τέσσαρα, ὧν ἡ σύνθεσις ἑνὸς καὶ δυοῖν καὶ τριῶν καὶ τεσσάρων ἀποτελεῖ δεκάδα παραφαίνουσαν τοῖς ὁρατικοῖς καὶ ἕτερα κάλλη·

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.) — 26 focus

[26] And the archetypal numbers, which are the models of these three are, of the point the limit, of the line the number two, and of the superficies the number three, and of the solid the number four; the combination of which, that is to say of one, and two, and three, and four completes the decade, which displays other beauties also in addition to those which are visible.

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