Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 26

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[26] νόσος δέ τις καὶ ἡ δειλία, βαρυτέρα τῶν κατὰ τὸ σῶμα, τὰς ψυχῆς δυνάμεις
καθαιροῦσα· τῶν μὲν γὰρ βραχὺν εἶναι συμβαίνει τὸν χρόνον τῆς ἀκμῆς, ἡ δ’ ἐστὶ κακὸν σύντροφον, μᾶλλον ἢ οὐχ ἧττον τῶν ἡνωμένων μερῶν προσπεφυκὸς ἐκ πρώτης ἡλικίας ἄχρι πανυστάτου γήρως, εἰ μὴ τύχοι θεὸς ἰώμενος· πάντα γὰρ θεῷ δυνατά.

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.) — 26 focus

[26] And cowardice is a disease, and a worse one, too, than any of those which affect the body, inasmuch as it destroys the faculties of the soul; for diseases of the body, indeed, are at their height but for a short period, but cowardice is an evil which grows with the man in a greater degree, or, at all events, not less than the parts of the body which are united to it, cleaving to the soul from its earliest infancy to the very extremity of old age, unless God himself interpose to cure it; for all things are possible to God.

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