Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 43

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[43] ἄνθρωπος γὰρ ὢν ὄγκον καὶ σεμνότητα τετραγῳδημένην οὐ δικαιώσω προσίεσθαι, μενῶ δ’ ἐντὸς τῆς φύσεως τοὺς ὅρους αὐτῆς μὴ ὑπερβαίνων, ἀλλ’ ἐθίζων τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ διάνοιαν ἀνθρωποπαθεῖν,
οὐ μόνον διὰ τὰς ἀδήλους πρὸς τἀναντία μεταβολὰς καὶ τῶν εὖ πραττόντων καὶ τῶν ἐν κακοπραγίαις, ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ τὸ ἁρμόττειν, κἂν ἀτρέπτως καὶ βεβαίως παραμένῃ τὸ εὐτυχεῖν, μὴ ἐπιλανθάνεσθαί τινα ἑαυτοῦ. διὰ ταῦτά μοι δοκεῖ τοὺς χρησμοὺς ἑνικῶς ἀποτεινάμενος ὡς πρὸς ἕνα θεσπίζειν ἐθελῆσαι.

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.) — 43 focus

[43] for, inasmuch as I myself am a man, I will not think it right to cherish a pompous and tragedian-like dignity of manner, but I will keep myself within my nature, not transgressing its boundaries, but accustoming my mind to bear human events with complacency and equanimity. Not only because of the unforeseen changes by which things of one character assume a different appearance, both in the case of those in prosperity and of those who are in adversity, but also because it is becoming, even if prosperity were to remain unaltered and unshaken that a man should not forget himself. For these reasons it appears to me to have been that God expressed his oracular commandments in the singular number, as if they were directed to a single individual.

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 43

ed. Leopold Cohn

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