Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 72

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[72] καὶ οὔπω τοῦτο δεινόν, καίτοι δεινὸν ὄν, ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο παγχάλεπον· ἤδη γάρ τινας οἶδα τῶν πεποιηκότων τοῖς πρὸς ἑαυτῶν γεγονόσιν εὐχομένους τε καὶ θύοντας, οἷς πολὺ βέλτιον ἦν ἑκατέραν τῶν χειρῶν προσκυνεῖν, εἰ δὲ μὴ
βούλοιντο δόξαν φιλαυτίας ἐκτρεπόμενοι, σφύρας γοῦν καὶ ἄκμονας καὶ γραφίδας καὶ καρκίνους καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἐργαλεῖα, δι’ ὧν ἐμορφώθησαν αἱ ¹ ὗλαι.

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.) — 72 focus

[72] and these are not the worst points of all, bad as they are: but this is entirely intolerable, for I have known before now, some of the very men who have made the things, praying and sacrificing to the very things which have been made by them, when it would have been more to their purpose to worship either of their own hands, or, if they feared the reproach of self-conceit, and therefore did not choose to do that, at all events to worship their anvils, and hammers, and graving tools, and compasses, and other instruments, by means of which the materials have been fashioned into shape.

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De decalogo

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Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 72

ed. Leopold Cohn

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