Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 77

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[77] καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἴσως ἔχει τινὰ λόγον, ἡμερώτατα γὰρ καὶ ὠφελιμώτατα τῷ βίῳ· ἀροτὴρ ὁ βοὺς
αὔλακας ἀνατέμνει καιρῷ σπορᾶς, ἀλοῆσαι πάλιν, ὅταν δέῃ τὸν καρπὸν καθαίρεσθαι, δυνατώτατος· ὁ κριὸς τὸ κάλλιστον τῶν σκεπασμάτων, ἐσθῆτα, παρέχει· γυμνὰ γὰρ ἂν τὰ σώματα διεφθείρετο ῥᾳδίως, ἢ διὰ θάλπος ἢ διὰ κρύος ἄμετρον, τοτὲ μὲν τῷ ἀφ’ ἡλίου φλογμῷ, τοτὲ δὲ τῇ ἀπ’ ἀέρος περιψύξει.

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.) — 77 focus

[77] and as to these particular animals, they have indeed some reason for what they do, for they are the most domestic, and the most useful to life.

The bull, as a plougher, draws furrows for the reception of the seed, and is again the most powerful of all animals to thresh the corn out when it is necessary to purify it of the chaff; the ram gives us the most beautiful garments for the coverings of our persons; for if our bodies were naked, they would easily be destroyed either through heat, or through intense cold, caused at one time by the blaze of the sun, and at another by the cooling of the air.

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 77

ed. Leopold Cohn

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