ON HUMANITY.

We must now proceed in due order to consider that virtue which is more nearly related to piety, being as it were a sister, a twin sister, namely, humanity, which the father of our laws loved so much that I know not if any human being was ever more attached to it. For he knew that this was as it were a plain and level road conducting to holiness; and, therefore, he trained and instructed all the people who were in subjection to himself in precepts of fellowship, the most excellent of all lessons, exhibiting to them his own life as an archetypal model for them to copy.

De Virtutibus. Philo Judaeus. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023.

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On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance (English) (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.)

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De Virtutibus First1KGreek (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 5. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1906.) — 51 focus

Περὶ φιλανθρωπίας.

1 Τὴν δ’ εὐσεβείας συγγενεστάτην καὶ ἀδελφὴν καὶ δίδυμον
ὄντως ἑξῆς ἐπισκεπτέον φιλανθρωπίαν, ἧς ἐρασθεὶς ὡς οὐκ οἶδ’ εἴ τις ¹² ἕτερος ὁ προφήτης τῶν νόμων — ὁδὸν γὰρ οἷα λεωφόρον ἄγουσαν ἐφ’ ὁσιότητα ταύτην ἠπίστατο — τοὺς ὑπ’ αὐτὸν ἅπαντας ἤλειφε καὶ συνεκρότει πρὸς κοινωνίαν, παράδειγμα καλὸν ὥσπερ γραφὴν ἀρχέτυπον στηλιτεύσας τὸν ἴδιον βίον.

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 51

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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