Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 138

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[138] ἐχθροῖς οὖν φησι δεσπόταις εἰς τὸ ἀνηλεὲς χρήσεσθαι τοὺς ἀλογοῦντας νόμων ἱερῶν, οὐ μόνον ἐξ ἐπιθέσεως τῆς ἐκείνων ὑπαχθέντας, ἀλλὰ καὶ γνώμαις ἑκουσίοις ἐκδόντας αὑτοὺς ἕνεκα τῶν ἀβουλήτων, ἃ λιμὸς καὶ σπάνις
τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀπεργάζεται· τὰ γὰρ ἐλάττω κακὰ φυγῇ μειζόνων αἱρετὰ νομίζουσί τινες, εἰ δή τι βραχὺ τῶν εἰρημένων ἐστί.

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.) — 138 focus

[138] Therefore the lawgiver pronounces that those persons who neglect the sacred laws shall have their enemies for their masters, who will treat them unmercifully, not only as having been reduced under their power by invincible attacks, but also as having voluntarily submitted to them through unforeseen calamities which famine and the want of necessaries has caused; for some persons think it well to choose lesser evils, if by so doing they can avoid greater ones; if, indeed, any one of the misfortunes above mentioned can be called a slight evil.

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