Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 41

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[41] τοῦτο διαπραξάμεναι τοῖς ἀνδράσιν εὐαγγελίζονται· καὶ ἔμελλον ἂν καὶ ἄλλους ἐπισπᾶσθαι τῶν μὴ σφόδρα βεβαίων, εἰ μὴ τοῦ
πάθους λαβὼν οἶκτον ὁ εὐεργέτης καὶ ἵλεως θεὸς ἀνυπερθέτῳ κολάσει τῶν ἀπονοηθέντων — ἦσαν δὲ τέσσαρες πρὸς ταῖς εἴκοσι χιλιάδες — ὥσπερ ὑπὸ χειμάρρου κατακλυσθῆναι κινδυνεύσαντας ἀνεχαίτισε φόβῳ νουθετήσας.

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.) — 41 focus

[41] and they would have been likely to draw over others also of the firmer and strongerminded sort, if the bountiful and merciful God had not taken compassion upon their unhappy state, and by the prompt punishment of those who had gone astray and wrought folly (and they were twenty-four thousand men), by which he admonished and checked by terror those others who were in danger of being carried away by the torrent.

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