Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 66

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[66] ἀλλ’ ὅσοι μὲν ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης καὶ τοῦ ¹ σύμπαντος οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ κόσμου καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς ὁλοσχερεστάτων μερῶν ὡς θεῶν πρόπολοί τε καὶ θεραπευταί, διαμαρτάνουσι μὲν — πῶς γὰρ οὔ; — τοὺς ὑπηκόους πρὸ τοῦ ἄρχοντος ἀποσεμνύνοντες, ἧττον δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀδικοῦσι τῶν ξύλα καὶ λίθους ἄργυρόν τε καὶ χρυσὸν καὶ τὰς παραπλησίους ὕλας μορφωσάντων ὡς φίλον ἑκάστοις,
εἶτ’ ἀγαλμάτων καὶ ξοάνων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων χειροκμήτων, ὧν πλαστικὴ καὶ ζωγραφία δημιουργοὶ μεγάλα ἔβλαψαν τὸν βίον τὸν ἀνθρώπινον, καταπλησάντων τὴν οἰκουμένην.

De Decalogo. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Decalogo (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 4. Cohn, Leonard, editor.Berlin: Reimer, 1902.)

Translations (1)

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.) — 66 focus

[66] for those who are ministers and servants of the sun, and of the moon, and of all the host of heaven, or of it in all its integrity or of its principal parts, are in grievous error; (how can they fail to be, when they honour the subjects instead of the prince?) but still they sin less grievously than the others, who have fashioned stocks, and stones, and silver, and gold, and similar materials according to their own pleasure, making images, and statues, and all kinds of other things wrought by the hand; the workmanship in which, whether by statuary, or painter, or artisan, has done great injury to the life of man, having filled the whole habitable world.

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De decalogo

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1 δὲ AP νέμοντες] μεταδιδόντες M μνήμην G Arm : μνήμης ceteri (v) 1.
2 καινότατον coni. Mang. post κοινότατον add. ἀξιοῦνται Turn., μεταδιδόντες Mang.
2 ἐπιλάθονται F1, in ἐπελάθοντο corr. F2 οὗ μόνον MAPH2: οὐ μόνον οὗ FGH1 μεμνῆσθαι προσῆκον ἦν MF Arm: προσῆκον ἣν μεμνῆσθαι ceteri (v)
3 ἔνιοι] ἕτεροι M (Mang.) δὲ om. M στομάργῳ] στόματι ἀργῶ M, om. Arm
4 ἀσεβείας M Arm: ἀδικίας ceteri (Turn.)
5 κακήγορον Mang. (sic Arm): κατήγορον codd.
6 ἅμα] ἀλλὰ F ἄληκτον M
8 ἡ γὰρ M: ἥτις ceteri ἑλέπολις FH τουτέστιν MGH, τουτέστι AP, om. F ὧ μόνω M Arm : μόνον ὧ APG, οἱ μόνον ὧ H, οἱ μόνω νῶ F
9 ἐπιστομίζουσι M : ἐπιστοματίζουσι APFG, ἀποστοματίζουσι H
10 ἡσυχίαν M: τὴν ἡσυχίαν ceteri (v)
12 δ’ om. M καθὸ] πρὸς ὃ M
13 πάντων M εἷς M Arm: om. ceteri
14 ἀγεννήτου F
15 pr. καὶ] καὶ τοῦ M (Mang.) θεραπείᾳ om. Arm σφόδρ’ GH
16 ἐπαποδυώμεθα G, ω ex ο corr. Η: ἐπαποδυόμεθα APF, ἐπαποδυσόμεθα M ὐποκλινόμενοι .A.P μηδ’] μὴ AP
17 ὑφ’] ἀφ’ H (Turu)
18 μὲν MG : om. ceteri; μὲν οὖν om. Turu. καὶ παραγγελμάτων] καὶ παραδειγμάτων AP, om. M ἱερώτατον] τῶν ἱερωτάτων M
19 ἐν om. M ἑαυτοῖς MG : αὑτοῖς H, αὐτοῖς APF τὸν] τῶν AP ἀνώτατον F
20 καθαρῶς καὶ ἀδόλως ἀνδρὸς codd. : ἀνδρὸς καθαρῶς καὶ ἀδόλως Mang.
21 ὅσοι] οἱ M

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