Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 35

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[35] γυναικῶν τὰς περικαλλεστάτας μεταπεμψάμενοί φασιν αὐταῖς· „ὁρᾶτε, ὡς ἀπερίληπτός ἐστιν ἡ τῶν Ἑβραίων πληθύς. τῆς δὲ πληθύος ἐστὶν ἀργαλεώτερον ἐπιτείχισμα ἡ ὁμόνοια καὶ συμφωνία
τούτων· αἴτιον δὲ τῆς ὁμονοίας τὸ ἀνωτάτω καὶ μέγιστον ἡ περὶ τοῦ ἑνὸς θεοῦ δόξα, ἀφ’ ἧς οἷα πηγῆς ἑνωτικῇ καὶ ἀδιαλύτῳ φιλίᾳ κέχρηνται πρὸς ἀλλήλους.

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.) — 35 focus

[35] Having sent for the most beautiful of their women, they said to them, You see how invincible the multitude of the Hebrews is; and a defence to them more formidable than even their number is their unanimity and agreement; and the greatest and most powerful cause of this unanimity is the idea which they entertain of the one God, from which, as from a fountain, they derive a united and indissoluble affection for one another.

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