Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 183

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[183] παγκάλους μέντοι καὶ τὰς εἰς μετάνοιαν ὑφηγήσεις ποιεῖται, αἷς διδασκόμεθα μεθαρμόζεσθαι τὸν βίον ἐξ ἀναρμοστίας εἰς τὴν ἀμείνω μεταβολήν· φησὶ γάρ, ὅτι τουτὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα οὐχ ὑπέρογκόν ἐστιν οὐδὲ μακρὰν ἀφεστός, οὔτε κατὰ τὸν αἰθέρα ἀνωτάτω κἀν ἐσχατιαῖς γῆς οὔτε πέραν τῆς μεγάλης θαλάττης, ὡς ἀδυνατῆσαι
λαβεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἔστιν ἐγγυτάτω, τρισὶ μέρεσι τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶς ἐνδιαιτώμενον, στόματι καὶ καρδίᾳ καὶ χερσί, διὰ συμβόλων λόγοις καὶ βουλαῖς καὶ πράξεσι· λόγου μὲν γὰρ στόμα σύμβολον, καρδία δὲ βουλευμάτων, πράξεων δὲ χεῖρες, ἐν οἷς τὸ εὐδαιμονεῖν ἐστιν.

De Virtutibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 183 focus

[183] Moreover, Moses delivers to us very beautiful exhortations to repentance, by which he teaches us to alter our way of life, changing from an irregular and disorderly course into a better line of conduct; for he says that this task is not one of any excessive difficulty, nor one removed far out of our reach, being neither above us in the air nor on the extreme borders of the sea, so that we are unable to take hold of it; but it is near us, abiding, in fact, in three portions of us, namely, in our mouths, and our hearts, and our hands; ¹ by symbols, that is to say, in our words, and counsels, and actions; for the mouth is the symbol of speech, and the heart of counsels, and the hands of actions, and in these happiness consists. ²

Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 183

ed. Leopold Cohn

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