Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 56

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[56]
ὕπαρχος ὢν καὶ τὰ τῆς ἡγεμονίας συνδιοικῶν. ἀλλὰ καίτοι βάσανον ἀκριβῆ λαβὼν ἐκ μακρῶν χρόνων τῆς ἔν τε λόγοις καὶ ἔργοις καλοκἀγαθίας αὐτοῦ καὶ — τὸ ἀναγκαιότατον. — εὐνοίας τῆς πρὸς τὸ ἔθνος, οὐδὲ τοῦτον ᾠήθη χρῆναι καταλιπεῖν διάδοχον, δεδιὼς μή ποτε ψευδοδοξῇ νομίζων ἀγαθὸν τὸν οὐκ ὄντα πρὸς ἀλήθειαν, ἐπειδὴ τὰ κριτήρια τῆς
ἀνθρωπίνης γνώμης ἀμυδρὰ καὶ ἀβέβαιά πως εἶναι πέφυκεν.

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.) — 56 focus

[56] But yet, though Moses had thus an accurate knowledge of him from his experience of him for a long time, and though he knew his excellence both in word and deed, and the greatness of his good will towards his nation, yet he did not think fit to leave him as his successor himself, fearing lest he might perchance be deceived in looking on that man as good who in reality was not so, since the tests by which one can judge of human nature are in a great degree indistinct and unstable.

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