Philo Judaeus De Decalogo 94

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[94] ἐρευνάτω δὲ καὶ τόπον καὶ καιρὸν ἐπιτήδειον· οἶδα γὰρ οἶδά τινας ἐν βεβήλοις καὶ
ἀκαθάρτοις χωρίοις, ἐν οἷς οὔτε πατρὸς οὔτε μητρὸς ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τῶν ὀθνείων πρεσβύτου τινὸς εὖ βεβιωκότος ἄξιον μεμνῆσθαι, διομνυμένους καὶ ὅλας ῥήσεις ὅρκων συνείροντας, τῷ τοῦ θεοῦ πολυωνύμῳ καταχρησαμένους ὀνόματι ἔνθα μὴ δεῖ πρὸς ἀσέβειαν.

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.) — 94 focus

[94] Let him also consider whether the place and the time are suitable; for before now I have known some persons, in profane and impure places (in which it is not fitting that mention should be made of either their father or their mother, or of even any old man among their kindred who may have lived a virtuous life), swearing, and stringing together whole sentences full of oaths, using the name of God with all the variety of titles which belong to him, when they should not, out of sheer impiety.

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