Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 35

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[35] τὴν δὲ κεκαινουργημένην φωνὴν ἐπιπνέουσα θεοῦ δύναμις ἤγειρε καὶ ἐζωπύρει καὶ ἀναχέουσα πάντῃ τὸ τέλος τῆς ἀρχῆς ἀπέφαινε τηλαυγέστερον,
ἀκοὴν ἑτέραν πολὺ βελτίω τῆς δι’ ὤτων ταῖς ἑκάστων ψυχαῖς ἐντιθεῖσα· ἡ μὲν γὰρ βραδυτέρα πως οὖσα αἴσθησις ἀτρεμίζει, μέχρις ἂν ὑπ’ ἀέρος πληχθεῖσα διακινηθῇ, φθάνει δ’ ἡ τῆς ἐνθέου διανοίας ὀξυτάτῳ τάχει προϋπαντῶσα τοῖς λεγομένοις.

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.) — 35 focus

[35] But the power of God, breathing forth vigorously, aroused and excited a new kind of miraculous voice, and diffusing its sound in every direction, made the end more conspicuous at a distance than the beginning, implanting in the soul of each individual another hearing much superior to that which exists through the medium of the ears. For the one, being in some degree a slower kind of external sense, remains in a state of inactivity until it is struck by the air, and so put in motion. But the sense of the inspired mind outstrips that, going forth with the most rapid motion to meet what is said.

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 35

ed. Leopold Cohn

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