Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 57

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[57] ὅθεν οὐ προπιστεύων ἑαυτῷ ποτνιᾶται καὶ καθικετεύει τὸν ἀοράτου ψυχῆς ἔφορον θεόν, ᾧ μόνῳ διάνοιαν ἔξεστιν ἀκριβῶς θεωρεῖν, p. 885 M. ἀριστίνδην ἑλέσθαι τὸν ἐπιτηδειότατον εἰς ἡγεμονίαν, ὃς οἷα πατὴρ ἐπιμελήσεται τῶν ὑπηκόων· καὶ τὰς καθαρὰς καὶ ὡς ἂν εἴποι τις τροπικώτερον παρθένους χεῖρας
ἀνατείνας εἰς οὐρανόν φησιν·

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.) — 57 focus

[57] On which account he did not trust to his own knowledge, but he supplicated and entreated God, who alone can behold the invisible soul, who sees accurately the mind of man, to choose and select the most suitable man for the supreme authority, one who would care for the people who were to be his subjects like a father. And stretching his pure, and, as one may say in a somewhat metaphorical manner, his virgin hands towards heaven, he said,

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