Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 80

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[80] ὧν τί ἂν γένοιτο καταγελαστότερον; καὶ δὴ τῶν ξένων οἱ πρῶτον εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀφικόμενοι, πρὶν τὸν ἐγχώριον τῦφον εἰσοικίσασθαι ταῖς διανοίαις, ἐκθνῄσκουσι χλευάζοντες· ὅσοι δὲ παιδείας ὀρθῆς ἐγεύσαντο, τὴν ἐπ’ ἀσέμνοις πράγμασι σεμνοποιίαν καταπλαγέντες οἰκτίζονται τοὺς
χρωμένους, ἀθλιωτέρους, ὅπερ εἰκός, ὑπολαμβάνοντες εἶναι τῶν τιμωμένων, μεταβεβληκότας εἰς ἐκεῖνα τὰς ψυχάς, ὡς ἀνθρωποειδῆ θηρία περινοστεῖν δοκεῖν.

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.) — 80 focus

[80] And, accordingly, the first foreigners who arrived in Egypt were quite worn out with laughing at and ridiculing these superstitions, till their minds had become impregnated with the conceit of the natives; but all those who have tasted of right instruction, are amazed and struck with consternation, at their system of ennobling things which are not noble, and pity those who give into it, thinking the men, as is natural, more miserable than even the objects which they honour, since they in their souls are changed into those very animals, so as to appear to be merely brutes in human form, now returning to their original nature. ¹

Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 80

ed. Leopold Cohn

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