Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 132

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[132] ποῦ γὰρ ἢ σίδηρος ἐσταχυηφόρησεν ἢ ὑετὸν ἤνεγκε χαλκός, ὧν χρεῖα τὰ ζῷα καὶ μάλιστα τὸ ἐπίκηρον καὶ πολλῶν ἐπιδεές, ἄνθρωπος; μηνύει δ’ οὐ μόνον ἀφορίαν καὶ τῶν ἐτησίων ὡρῶν
φθοράν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πολέμων γενέσεις καὶ τῶν ἐν τούτοις ἀφορήτων καὶ ἀμυθήτων κακῶν· χαλκὸς γὰρ καὶ σίδηρος πολεμιστηρίων ὅπλων ὗλαι.

De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 5. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1906.)

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On Rewards and Punishments First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 3. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 132 focus

[132] for how could iron ever bear ears of corn, or how could brass produce rain, of which all animals stand in need, and especially that animal so liable to misfortune and in need of so many things, man? And God intimates here not only barrenness and the destruction of the seasons of the year, but also the beginnings of wars, and of all the intolerable and ineffable evils which arise in wars; for brass and iron are the materials for warlike arms.

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