Philo Judaeus, De Virtutibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 34

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[34] 7 Τῶν δὲ λεχθέντων σαφεστάτην πίστιν αἱ ἱεραὶ βίβλοι περιέχουσιν. ἔθνος πολυανθρωπότατόν ἐστιν Ἄραβες, οἷς ὄνομα παλαιὸν ἦν Μαδιηναῖοι. οὗτοι πρὸς Ἑβραίους φιλαπεχθημόνως ἔχοντες, οὐδενὸς ἕνεκα ἑτέρου μᾶλλον ἢ ὅτι τὸ ἀνωτάτω καὶ πρεσβύτατον αἴτιον σέβουσι καὶ τιμῶσι τῷ ποιητῇ καὶ πατρὶ τῶν ὅλων προσκεκληρωμένοι, καὶ
πάσας μὲν μηχανὰς τεχνάζοντες, πάσας δὲ πείρας καθιέντες, ἵνα ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ ἑνὸς καὶ ὄντως ὄντος τιμῆς αὐτοὺς ἀποστήσωσι καὶ μεθαρμόσωνται πρὸς ἀσέβειαν ἐξ ὁσιότητος — οὕτως γὰρ περιέσεσθαι ῥᾳδίως ¹² ὑπελάμβανον —, ἐπειδὴ μυρία καὶ λέγοντες καὶ δρῶντες ἀπειρήκεσαν, ὥσπερ οἱ θανατῶντες ἐφ’ ὧν ἀπογνῶσι σωτηρίας, καί τι τοιοῦτον ἐπινοοῦσι στρατήγημα.

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.) — 34 focus

And the sacred volumes contain the most undeniable proofs of what has been here stated. The most numerous of EER all nations is that of the Arabians, whose ancient name was the Madienaeans. These people being inimicably disposed towards the Hebrews, for no other cause more than because they honour and worship the highest and mightiest Cause of all things, as being dedicated to the Creator and Father of the universe as his peculiar people, and having tried every imaginable device and exhausted every contrivance to cause them to abandon the worship of the one only true and living God, and to forsake holiness and adopt impiety, thought that if they could do so they should be easily able to get the better of them. But when, in spite of having both done and said innumerable things, they had failed in everything, like dying people who now despair of their safety, they contrived a device of the following nature.

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De virtutibus

1.
1 εὐστάθειαν HP: ἀπάθειαν F, εὐπάθειαν ceteri εἰ] εἰς Α
2 pr. εἰ om. Α ὑγιαίνων G δι’ ὄλου VOF μέλεσι καὶ μέρεσι F πᾶσιν om. O
4 θαρραλεότητος] θαρραλεωτάτη H (v)
5 φρονήσεως] φρονήματος coui. Mang. εἰ] F G ἕκαστα SVOFG
7 ἀθρόοι SVOF εἰ συνέλθοιεν] εἰσέλθοιε M
8 ἐπιδείξωνται S, ἐπιδείξαντες V2OF κρατοῦσιν V2OF 10.
11 παρέχουσιν conicio
11 tit. περὶ εὐσεβείας hoc loco add. G ἄρραβες VOAH2
12 Μαδιηναῖοι] τοὺς Μαδιηνέους σαρακηνοὺς λέγει aduot. S, τοὺς σαρακηνοὺς λέγει mg G οὗτοι] οὕτως S οὐδενός] μηδενὸς P
13 ἑτέρου ἕνεκα Α ἕνεκα ἑτέρου Mang.): ἕνεκα om. ceteri (Turu.) ἀνωτάτω Maug. (cf. Clem. Α1.): ἀνώτατον codd. (Turn.) αἴτιον oin. S 13.
14 σέβουσι καὶ om. Κ
14 tert. καὶ eras. V-, om. OF
15 μηχανὰς μὲν transp. Α τεχνάσαντες V-OF καθέντες P ἴνα S: ἵν᾿ ceteri
16 ὄντως om. Tiirn. ἀποστήσουσι ’P 16.
17 μεθαρμώσονται S
17 ἐξ] δι’ Α οὕτως SG οὃτω ceteri ῥαδίως περιέσεσθαι transp. BKM

2.
11 sqq. Num. cap. 25.
12 sqq. Clem. Alex. Slroni.
11 18 p. 472 P. τί δέ; οὐχὶ αἱ Μαδιηναίων γυναῖκες τῷ κάλλει τῷ σφῶν πολεμοῦντας τοὺς Ἑβραίους ἐκ σωφροσύνης δι’ ἀκρασίαν εἰς ἀθεότητα ὑπηγάγοντο; προσεταιρισάμεναι γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἐκ τῆς σεμνῆς ἀσκήσεως εἰς ἡδονὰς ἑταιρικὰς τῷ κάλλει δελεάσασαι ἐπί τε τἀς τῶν εἰδώλων θυσίας ἐπί τε τὰς ἀλλοδαπὰς ἐξέμηναν γυναῖκας, γυναικῶν δὲ ἄμα καὶ ἡδονῆς ἡττηθέντες ἀπέστησαν μέν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀπέστησαν δὲ καὶ τοῦ νόμου, καὶ μικροῦ δεῖν
6 πᾶς λεὼς ὑποχείριος τοῖς πολεμίοις γυναικείῳ στρατηγήματι ἐγεγόνει, ἕως αὐτοὺς κινδυνεύοντας ἀνεχαίτισε νουθειήσας φόβος. 13.
14 Clem. Alex. Strom.
11 18 p. 469 P. ἀλλ’ ἡ μὲν εὐσέβεια παντί που δήλη τὸ ἀνωτάτω καὶ πρεσβύτατον αἴτιον σέβειν καὶ τιμᾶν διδάσκουσα. καὶ δικαιοσύνην δὲ αὐτὸς
6 νόμος παρίστησι παιδεύων τήν τε φρόνησιν διὰ τῆς τῶν αἰσθητῶν εἰδώλων ἀποχῆς καὶ τῆς πρὸς τὸν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τῶν ὅλων προσκληρώσεως.

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