Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 41

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[41] εἰ γὰρ ὁ ἀγένητος καὶ ἄφθαρτος καὶ ἀίδιος καὶ οὐδενὸς ἐπιδεὴς καὶ ποιητὴς τῶν ὅλων ¹² καὶ εὐεργέτης καὶ βασιλεὺς βασιλέων καὶ θεὸς θεῶν οὐδὲ τὸν ταπεινότατον ὑπεριδεῖν ὑπέμεινεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτον εὐωχῆσαι λογίων καὶ θεσμῶν ἱερῶν ἠξίωσεν, ὡς μόνον ἑστιᾶν μέλλων καὶ μόνῳ τὸ συμπόσιον εὐτρεπίζεσθαι πρὸς ψυχῆς ἀνάχυσιν ἱεροφαντουμένης, ᾗ θέμις τὰς μεγάλας τελεῖσθαι τελετάς, ἐμοὶ τῷ θνητῷ τί προσῆκον ὑψαυχενεῖν καὶ
πεφυσῆσθαι φρυαττομένῳ πρὸς τοὺς ὁμοίους, οἳ τύχαις μὲν ἀνίσοις ἴσῃ δὲ καὶ ὁμοίᾳ συγγενείᾳ κέχρηνται μίαν ἐπιγραψάμενοι μητέρα τὴν κοινὴν ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων φύσιν;

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.) — 41 focus

[41] For if the uncreated, and immortal, and everlasting God, who is in need of nothing and who is the maker of the universe, and the benefactor and King of kings, and God of gods, cannot endure to overlook even the meanest of human beings, but has thought even such worthy of being banqueted in sacred oracles and laws, as if he were about to give him a love-feast, and to prepare for him alone a banquet for the refreshing and expanding of his soul instructed in the divine will and in the manner in which the great ceremonies ought to be performed, how can it be right for me, who am a mere mortal, to hold my head up high and to allow myself to be puffed up, behaving with insolence to my equals whose fortunes may, perhaps, not be equal to mine, but whose relationship to me is equal and complete, inasmuch as they are set down as the children of one mother, the common nature of all men?

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De decalogo

1.
1 τὰ ἄλλα M: τἄλλα APG, τἄλλα FH οὑν ἓν μέν M Arm: μὲν οὑν (om. ἓν) ceteri (v)
2 ὅτι] ὡς AP κάλλιστα M
4 πολυανθρωποτεύ(??)τω κ eras.) F1, εὑ in α corr. F2
5 προσελθόντα M
6 διόπερ codd. : διότι Turn. ἄνδρα δίκαιον transp. AP
7 pr. ὁ om. M σός MAPF: ὁ σός G, σου Η (v) ὁ δ’] ὁ γὰρ Arm post ἦν add. γὰρ FH
9 λαμβάνειν AP1
10 δ’ MH ὅτι om. ’ πλήθη M
11 ἑνί, ὅτε F (coni. Mang.): ἐνίοτε MAPH, ἑνὶ ἑκάστω G δὲ om. G προστάττει ἡ ἀπαγορεύει conicio ἰδία M: ἰδία δ’ FGH, ἰδία δὲ AP ’2 ἄν δόξαι] ἄν δέξεται; ἐνδέξεται Turn.
13 δὲ MG: om. ceteri; γὰρ coni. Mang.; ὅτι εὐπειθέστερος Arm 1.5 ποιούμενον Turn.
16 καταφρονήσει F
17 χαλάσει Α
18 ἀληθῆ F ἀγέννητος APF

2.
18 — 278,18 DH fol. 227v Φίλωνος: ἄνθρωπος ὢν εὐπρόσιτος καὶ εὐέντευκτος (278,8) ἕσο τοῖς πᾶσι καὶ ἔθιζε τὴν εαυτοῦ διάνοιαν ἀνθρωποπαθεῖν οὐ μόνον διὰ τὰς ἀδήλους πρὸς ταπάντη (sic) βουλὰς καὶ τῶν εὑ πραττόντων καὶ τῶν ἐν κακοπραγίαις, ἀλλὰ κἀν βεβαίως παραμένῃ (278,15— 18), μὴ τραχηλιᾶν ἐπὶ τὴν τραγῳδουμένην εὐτυχίαν (cf. 278,13). εἰ γὰρ ὁ ἀγέννητος καὶ ἀθάνατος καὶ ἀίδιος καὶ οὐδενὸς ἐπιδεόμενος καὶ ποιητὴς τῶν ὅλων καὶ εὐεργέτης καὶ βασιλεὺς βασιλέων καὶ θεὸς θεῶν οὐδὲ τὸν ταπεινότατον ὑπεριδεῖν ὑπέμεινε θείων λογίων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτον ἠξίωσεν εὐωχίσαι θεσμῶν ἱερῶν ἱεροφαντούμενον ἑστιᾶν, τί ἐμοὶ τῷ θνητῷ προσῆκεν ὑψαυχενεῖν ἢ πεφυσῆσθαι περι]φρυαττομένῳ πρὸς τοὺς ὁμοίους, καὶ μίαν μητέρα τὴν κοινὴν ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων φύσιν κεκτημένον (18 — 278,8) ;

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