Philo Judaeus, De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 27

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[27] ὁ ὁ μὲν οὖν ἡγεμὼν τῆς θεοφιλοῦς δόξης, ὁ ὁ πρῶτος ἐκ
τύφου μεθορμισάμενος πρὸς ἀλήθειαν, διδακτικῇ χρησάμενος ἀρετῇ ¹ πρὸς τελείωσιν, ἆθλον αἴρεται τὴν πρὸς θεὸν πίστιν· τῷ δὲ κατ’ εὐμοιρίαν φύσεως αὐτήκοον καὶ αὐτομαθῆ καὶ αὐτοδίδακτον κτησαμένῳ τὴν ἀρετὴν βραβεῖον ἀναδίδοται χαρά· τοῦ δ’ ἀσκητοῦ καὶ πόνοις ἀτρύτοις καὶ ἀκαμπέσι περιποιησαμένου τὸ καλὸν ὁ στέφανός ἐστιν ὅρασις θεοῦ. τοῦ δὲ πιστεύειν θεῷ καὶ διὰ παντὸς τοῦ βίου χαίρειν καὶ ὁρᾶν ἀεὶ τὸ
ὂν τί ἂν ὠφελιμώτερον ἢ σεμνότερον ἐπινοήσειέ τις;

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.) — 27 focus

[27] Therefore, the first establisher of the sentiments devoted to God, namely, Abraham, the first person who passed over from pride to truth, employing that virtue which proceeds from instruction as a means towards perfection, chooses as his reward faith in God. And because he, by the innate goodness of his natural dispositions, had acquired a spontaneous, self-taught, and self-implanted virtue, joy was given to him as a prize. Again, to his grandson, the meditator on and practiser of virtue, who attained to what was good by indefatigable and incessant labours, the crown which was given was the sight of God. And what can any one conceive to be either more useful or more respectable than to believe in God and throughout one’s whole life to be continually rejoicing and beholding the living God?

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De praemiis et poenis et De exsecrationibus

1.
2 τῶν ἀνθρώπων D: τῶν om. codd. (v) μετ’ F
3 ζήσασι D: om. codd. (Turn.) ἑνὸς ἀνδρός δικαιοσύνης οὐκ ἄξια ἐβίωσαν DR
8 τὸ addidi: τὸ pro τῷ scribere voluit Mang.
9 καὶ δόξης Α
11 ἐστιν] ἣν F
14 εἰσοικησάμενος H
15 ἐνίδρυται F: ἐνιδρύεται AHP (v) ἐπιλάμψῃ] ἐπιπέμψῃ conicio
16 ἀλήθεια
51 τύφου Α ὅς] ἧ F μόλις F: μόγις ΑΗΡ (v)
17 νικηθεὶς HP: κινηθεὶς FA κινηθεὶς δυνάμει transp. F τουτὶ F: τοῦτο ΑΗΡ (v) ἀριθμῶν. H1P ὀλίγων P
18 τὸν τῆς γῆς κύκλον F: τῆς γῆς τὸν κύκλον Α, τῆς γῆς κύκλον HP (v)
19 φθάνειν codd.: φθάνει Mang. post οὐρανὸν add. F verba (interpolata) καὶ τά πέρατα τοῦ κόσμου, μᾶλλον δέ καὶ τὴν μετά κόσμου (κόσμον?) οὐσίαν ἱμέρω γὰρ τοῦ θεωρεῖν F: γάρ τοῦ θεωρεῖν ἔρωτι Α (Mang.), καὶ τοῦ θεωρεῖν ΗΡ (Turn.)
20 συνεῖναι Α: συνιέναι FHP (Turn.) κατϊσχημένον Α ἀλέκτως L ( ἀλέκτως ὅ Turn.)
21 διερευνήσας διεξέλθῃ Α
25 μεθορμισάμενος FH: μεθορμησάμενος P, μεθαρμοσάμενος Α (Mang.) πρός] εἰς F διδακτὴ vel διδασκαλικῇ coni. Mang.

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