Philo Judaeus De Virtutibus 82

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[82] 6 Ἀπαγορεύει τοίνυν ἀδελφῷ δανείζειν, ἀδελφὸν ὀνομάζων οὐ
μόνον τὸν ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν φύντα γονέων, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὃς ἂν ἀστὸς καὶ ὁμόφυλος ᾖ, τόκους ἐπὶ χρήμασιν οὐ δικαιῶν ἐκλέγειν ὡς ἀπὸ θρεμμάτων ἔγγονα.

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.) — 82 focus

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Therefore Moses forbids a man to lend on usury to his brother, ¹ meaning by the term brother not only him who is born of the same parents as one’s self, but every one who is a fellow citizen or a fellow countryman, since it is not just to exact offspring from money, as a farmer does from his cattle.

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