Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 33

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[33] ἀλλά γέ μοι δοκεῖ κατ’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον ἱεροπρεπέστατόν τι θαυματουργῆσαι κελεύσας ἦχον ἀόρατον ἐν ἀέρι δημιουργηθῆναι, πάντων ὀργάνων θαυμασιώτερον, ἁρμονίαις τελείαις ἡρμοσμένον, οὐκ ἄψυχον
ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ἐκ σώματος καὶ ψυχῆς τρόπον ζῴου συνεστηκότα, ἀλλὰ ψυχὴν λογικὴν ἀνάπλεω σαφηνείας καὶ τρανότητος, ἣ τὸν ἀέρα σχηματίσασα καὶ ἐπιτείνασα καὶ πρὸς πῦρ φλογοειδὲς μεταβαλοῦσα καθάπερ πνεῦμα διὰ σάλπιγγος φωνὴν τοσαύτην ἔναρθρον ἐξήχησεν, ὡς τοῖς ἔγγιστα τοὺς πορρωτάτω κατ’ p. 186 M. ἴσον ἀκροᾶσθαι δοκεῖν.

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.) — 33 focus

[33] but as it seems to me, he at that time wrought a most conspicuous and evidently holy miracle, commanding an invisible sound to be created in the air, more marvellous than all the instruments that ever existed, attuned to perfect harmonies; and that not an inanimate one, nor yet, on the other hand, one that at all resembled any nature composed of soul and body; but rather it was a rational soul filled with clearness and distinctness, which fashioned the air and stretched it out and changed it into a kind of flaming fire, and so sounded forth so loud and articulate a voice like a breath passing through a trumpet, so that those who were at a great distance appeared to hear equally with those who were nearest to it.

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 33

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