Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 40

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[40] τρίτον, ἵνα μηδείς ποτε βασιλεὺς ἢ τύραννος ἀφανοῦς ἰδιώτου καταφρονήσῃ γεμισθεὶς ἀλαζονείας καὶ ὑπεροψίας, ἀλλ’ εἰς τὰ τῶν ἱερῶν νόμων διδασκαλεῖα φοιτήσας p. 187 M. χαλάσῃ τὰς ὀφρῦς, ἀπομαθὼν οἴησιν εἰκότι μᾶλλον δ’ ἀληθεῖ λογισμῷ.

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.) — 40 focus

[40] A third view of the question is, that no king or tyrant may ever despise an obscure private individual, from being full of insolence and haughty pride; but that such an one, coming as a pupil to the school of the sacred laws, may relax his eyebrows, unlearning his self-opinionativeness, and yielding rather to true reason.

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