Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 27

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[27] σχεδὸν γὰρ ἡ ἀπειρία τῶν ἀριθμῶν ταύτῃ μετρεῖται, διότι οἱ συστήσαντες αὐτὴν ὅροι τέσσαρές εἰσιν, ἓν καὶ δύο καὶ τρία καὶ τέτταρα, οἱ δ’ ἴσοι ὅροι ἑκατοντάδα γεννῶσιν ἐκ δεκάδων — δέκα γὰρ καὶ
εἴκοσι καὶ τριάκοντα καὶ τεσσαράκοντα γίνονται ἑκατόν —, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ χιλιάδα ἐξ ἑκατοντάδων καὶ μυριάδα ἐκ χιλιάδων, μονὰς δὲ καὶ δεκὰς καὶ ἑκατοντὰς καὶ χιλιὰς τέσσαρες ὅροι οἱ δεκάδα γεννῶντες·

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.) — 27 focus

[27] For one may almost say that the whole infinity of numbers is measured by this one, because the boundaries which make it up are four, namely, one, two, three, and four; and an equal number of boundaries, corresponding to them in equal proportions, make up the number of a hundred out of decades; for ten, and twenty, and thirty, and forty produce a hundred. And in the same way one may produce the number of a thousand from hundreds, and that of a myriad from thousands.

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