Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 201

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[201] Ἐγένετο δέ τις τῶν μετὰ ταῦτα σφόδρα δοκίμων ἀνὴρ ὁσιώτατος, οὗ τὴν εὐσέβειαν ἀνάγραπτον ἠξίωσεν εἶναι ἐν ἱεραῖς βίβλοις ὁ τοὺς νόμους διαταξάμενος· ὃς ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ κατακλυσμῷ, τῶν πόλεων ἀφανιζομένων πανωλεθρίᾳ — καὶ γὰρ τῶν ὀρῶν τὰ ὑψηλότατα p. 440 M. τῇ συναυξήσει καὶ ἐπιτάσει τῆς περὶ τὴν φορὰν πλημμύρας κατεπίνετο —,
μόνος μετὰ τῶν οἰκείων διασῴζεται τῆς καλοκἀγαθίας ἆθλον ἀράμενος, οὗ μεῖζον οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν.

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.) — 201 focus

[201] Now there was, in the subsequent generations, a man very greatly approved of, a most holy man, whose piety the sacred historian, who has written the books called the law, has thought worthy of being recorded in the sacred volumes. Accordingly, in the great deluge when all the cities of the world were utterly destroyed (for even the highest mountains were overwhelmed by the increase and continual rising of the ¹ rapid flood), he alone was saved, with all his kindred, having received such a reward for his virtue that it is not possible to imagine a greater one. ²

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