Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 74

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[74] ἵνα κατακούσωσιν ἄνθρωποί τε καὶ ἄγγελοι λειτουργοί, οἱ μὲν ὡς γνώριμοι, πρὸς τὴν τῆς ὁμοίας εὐχαρίστου διαθέσεως διδασκαλίαν, οἱ δ’ ὡς ἔφοροι θεασάμενοι κατὰ
τὴν σφῶν ἐμπειρίαν, μή τι τῆς ᾠδῆς ἐκμελές, καὶ ἅμα διαπιστοῦντες, εἴ τις ἄνθρωπος ὢν ἐνδεδεμένος σώματι φθαρτῷ δύναται τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἡλίῳ καὶ σελήνῃ καὶ τῷ τῶν ἄλλων ἀστέρων πανιέρῳ χορῷ μεμουσῶσθαι τὴν ψυχὴν πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ὄργανον, τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὸν σύμπαντα κόσμον, ἁρμοσάμενος.

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.) — 74 focus

[74] the one, as being pupils, in order to learn to display their own grateful dispositions in a similar manner, and the others as presiding over them, and as by their own experience being able to take care that no part of this hymn shall be out of tune, and also as feeling some doubt whether any human being bound up in a mortal body could be able to attune his soul to music in the same manner as the sun, and the moon, and the rest of the company of the stars, having properly conformed himself to that divine instrument, the heaven, and to the universal world.

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