Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 15

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[15] 3 Μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐλπίδος νίκην ἀγὼν δεύτερός ἐστιν, ἐν ᾧ μετάνοια ἀγωνίζεται τῆς μὲν ἀτρέπτου καὶ ἀμεταβλήτου καὶ ἀεὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ
καὶ ὡσαύτως ἐχούσης φύσεως ἀμοιρήσασα, ζήλῳ δὲ καὶ ἔρωτι τοῦ βελτίονος ἐξαίφνης κατασχεθεῖσα καὶ σπεύδουσα καταλιπεῖν μὲν τὴν σύντροφον πλεονεξίαν καὶ ἀδικίαν, μεθορμίσασθαι δὲ πρὸς σωφροσύνην καὶ δικαιοσύνην καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἀρετάς.

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.) — 15 focus

And after the victory of hope there is another contest in which repentance contends for the prize; having, indeed, no share in that nature which is invincible, and which never changes its purpose, and which is always of the same character, entertaining the same disposition, but which is on a sudden seized with an admiration for and love of the better part, and which is anxious to leave the covetousness and injustice in which it has been bred up, and to go over to moderation and justice, and the other virtues;

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