Philo Judaeus, De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 152

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[152] ὁ μὲν ἔπηλυς ἄνω ταῖς εὐτυχίαις μετέωρος ἀρθεὶς περίβλεπτος
ἔσται, θαυμαζόμενος καὶ μακαριζόμενος ἐπὶ δυσὶ τοῖς καλλίστοις, τῷ τε αὐτομολῆσαι πρὸς θεὸν καὶ τῷ γέρας λαβεῖν οἰκειότατον τὴν ἐν οὐρανῷ τάξιν βεβαίαν, ἣν οὐ θέμις εἰπεῖν, ὁ δ’ εὐπατρίδης παρακόψας τὸ νόμισμα τῆς εὐγενείας ὑποσυρήσεται κατωτάτω πρὸς αὐτὸν τάρταρον ¹² καὶ βαθὺ σκότος ἐνεχθείς, ἵνα ταῦτα ὁρῶντες τὰ παραδείγματα πάντες ἄνθρωποι σωφρονίζωνται, μανθάνοντες ὅτι τὴν ἐκ δυσγενείας ἀρετὴν φυομένην θεὸς ἀσπάζεται, τὰς μὲν ῥίζας ἐῶν χαίρειν, τὸ δὲ στελεχωθὲν ἔρνος, ὅτι μετέβαλεν ἡμερωθὲν πρὸς εὐκαρπίαν, ἀποδεχόμενος.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 152 focus

[152] And the proselyte who has come over being lifted up on high by good fortune, will be a conspicuous object, being admired and pronounced happy in two most important particulars, in the first place because he has come over to God of his own accord, and also because he has received as a most appropriate reward a firm and sure habitation in heaven, such as one cannot describe. But the man of noble descent, who has adulterated the coinage of his noble birth, will be dragged down to the lowest depths, being hurled down to Tartarus and profound darkness, in order that all men who behold this example may be corrected by it, learning that God receives gladly virtue which grows out of hostility to him, utterly disregarding its original roots, but looking favourably on the whole trunk from its lowest foundation, because it has become useful, and has changed its nature so as to become fruitful.

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De praemiis et poenis et De exsecrationibus

1.
1 τραχύτατος Α: βραχύτατος H1P, βαρύτατος H2 (v)
3 βοηθείας A προσδοκήσαντας AP: προσδοκήσαντες Η (v)
4 ἑαυτοὺς HP: ὡς αὐτοὺς Α (Mang.) ἕκαστον Α (Mang.): ἕκαστοι HP δὲ Α: δ’ ΗP
5 δόξαντες] δόξαις H
6 μέντοι AP: μὲν Η (om. Turn.) ἐφεδρείαν Α: ἐφεδρίαν HP δ’ codd.: om. v
7 ἀγριώτατοι scripsi: ἀγριώτεροι codd.
9 μὲν codd.: μὴ Turn. δ’ Α
10 μὲν HP: δὲ A (Mang.) ; μὴ Turn, δὴ coni. Mang.
11 εἰ πώποτε H: ἢ πώποτε P, ἡ εἰ πώποτε Α (εἴ ποτε v) 11.
12 παροιμίας θήσονται A: παροιμιασθήσονται HP, παροιμιωθήσονται L (Turn.)
13 εἰσιν] ὅσαι coni. Mang.
14 αἱ τηκεδόνες Α: ἄσθμα καὶ τηκεδόνες HP (Turn.): καὶ ἄσθμα post παρελεύσονται (13) add. Mang. (sed cf. eius adnot.)
15 ἀίδρυτον codd. post ἐργάσονται interpung. v
16 νύκτωρ Α (Mang.): νύκτα HP κλονοῦσαι Mang. : κλίνουσιν HP, κατακλινοῦσιν Α κλινοῦσιν v) ὡς Α: ἕως HP
17 καὶ om. Α
18 ἀποτρόπαιον Α
20 καὶ μακαριζόμενος om. A
21 τῶ . . . τῶ Α: τό . . . τὸ ΗP
23 τῆς om. A

2.
2 Lev. 26,37.
7 Lev. 26,22.
10 Lev. 26, 31. 32.
11 sqq. Deut. 28,37. 61.
14 sqq. Deut. 28,66. 67.
19 sqq. Deut. 28,43.

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