Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 200

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[200] τί δὴ τοῦτον ὤνησεν ἡ εὐγένεια τὴν ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ δυσγένειαν ἐπιδειξάμενον; ἣν καὶ ὁ τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων ἔφορος θεὸς ἰδὼν ἐστύγησε καὶ προβαλλόμενος ὥρισε τιμωρίας, οὐκ εὐθὺς ἀνελών, ὅπως ἀναισθήτως ἔχῃ συμφορῶν, ἀλλὰ μυρίους ἐπικρεμάσας τοὺς ἐν αἰσθήσει θανάτους
λύπαις καὶ φόβοις ἐπαλλήλοις εἰς κακῶν ὀδυνηροτάτων ἀντίληψιν.

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.) — 200 focus

[200] Now, what good did the nobility of his birth do to a man who had displayed this want of nobleness in his soul? which God, who surveys all human things and actions, detested when he saw it; and, casting it forth, affixed a punishment to it, not slaying him at once, so that he should arrive at an immediate insensibility to misfortunes, but suspending over him ten thousand deaths in his external senses, by means of incessant griefs and fears, so as to inflict upon him the sense of the most grievous calamities.

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