Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 68

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[68] καί μοι δοκοῦσι τῶν τὰς τοῦ σώματος ὄψεις πεπηρωμένων ἀθλιώτερον ζῆν· ἐκεῖνοι μὲν γὰρ ἀκουσίως ἐβλάβησαν ἢ νόσον ὀφθαλμῶν χαλεπὴν ὑποστάντες ἢ πρὸς ἐχθρῶν ἐπιβουλευθέντες, οἱ δ’
ἑκουσίῳ γνώμῃ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ὄμμα οὐκ ἠμαύρωσαν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ παντελῶς ἀποβαλεῖν ἠξίωσαν.

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.) — 68 focus

[68] and such men appear to me to have a more miserable life than those who are deprived of their bodily sight; for these latter have either been injured without their own consent, or else have endured some terrible disease of the eyes, or else have been plotted against by their enemies; but those others by their own deliberate intention, have not only dimmed the eye of their soul, but have even chosen utterly to discard it;

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