Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 52

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[52] Ἐπισκεπτέον δὲ μετὰ πάσης ἀκριβείας τῶν λογίων ἕκαστον μηδὲν πάρεργον αὐτῶν ποιουμένους. ἀρχὴ δ’ ἀρίστη πάντων μὲν τῶν ὄντων θεός, ἀρετῶν δ’ εὐσέβεια· περὶ ὧν ἀναγκαιότατον πρῶτον διεξελθεῖν. πλάνος τις οὐ μικρὸς τὸ πλεῖστον τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος κατέσχηκε
περὶ πράγματος, ὅπερ ἢ μόνον ἢ μάλιστα ἦν εἰκὸς ἀπλανέστατον ταῖς ἑκάστων διανοίαις ἐνιδρῦσθαι.

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.) — 52 focus

[52] But we must consider, with all the accuracy possible, each of these oracles separately, not looking upon any one of them as superfluous. now the best beginning of all living beings is God, and of all virtues, piety. And we must, therefore, speak of these two principles in the first place.

There is an error of no small importance which has taken possession of the greater portion of mankind concerning a subject which was likely by itself, or, at least, above all other subjects, to have been fixed with the greatest correctness and truth in the mind of every one;

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