Philo Judaeus, De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 36

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[36] 6 Μετὰ τὸν αὐτομαθῆ δὲ καὶ πλουσίᾳ χρησάμενον τῇ φύσει τρίτος ὁ ἀσκητὴς τελειοῦται λαμβάνων γέρας ἐξαίρετον ὅρασιν θεοῦ. πάντων γὰρ τῶν κατὰ τὸν ἀνθρώπινον βίον ἐφαψάμενος καὶ πᾶσιν ¹²³ ἐνομιλήσας οὐ παρέργως καὶ μηδένα πόνον ἢ κίνδυνον παρελθών, εἴ πως δυνηθείη τὴν ἀξιέραστον ἀλήθειαν ἰχνηλατῆσαι, παρὰ τῷ θνητῷ γένει πολὺν ζόφον ἀνεύρισκε κατὰ γῆν καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ ἀέρα καὶ αἰθέρα· καὶ γὰρ ὁ αἰθὴρ καὶ ὁ σύμπας οὐρανὸς νυκτὸς αὐτῷ παρεῖχε φαντασίαν, ἐπειδὴ πᾶσα ἡ αἰσθητὴ φύσις ἀόριστος· τὸ δ’ ἀόριστον ἀδελφὸν σκότους
καὶ συγγενές.

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.) — 36 focus

And next to the man who has acquired self-taught virtue, and who has availed himself of the riches of nature, the third person who is made perfect is the meditator on and practiser of virtue, who receives as his especial reward the sight of God; for as he has had experience of all the things which can occur in human life, and as he has attained to a most intimate understanding of them, and has shrunk from no labour and from no danger which might enable him to track out and overtake that most desirable thing, truth, he has found in connection with human life and with the human race a great deal of darkness both by land and sea, and in the air, and in the atmosphere. For the atmosphere and the whole of heaven has presented to him the appearance of night, since every nature which is discernible by the outward senses is indefinite; and what is indefinite is akin to and closely resembling darkness.

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De praemiis et poenis et De exsecrationibus

1.
1 προονομάζουσιν L (Turn.)
2 φανερὸν F: om. AHP
3 τε καὶ F
4 ἀφ’ ἧς A κατεμπίπλαται Α
5 συμπάντων F: ἁπάντων AHP (v)
6 κακίας ἑκουσίου coni. Mang. coll. I.
15 8 γὰρ om. F 8.
9 μέρη σωμάτων F: σωμάτων μέρη AHPDH (v)
9 ἀφαιρεῖται Α τῆς τοῦ λοιποῦ σώματος A: om. FHPDH (Turn.) 10.
11 πλεόντων ADH
12 ἀποβολῆς] βλάβης F δ’ F
13 εἰδότι DH
14 φύσιν] προνοητικὴν δύναμιν DH καὶ] ἐπὶ DH
15 ἄνευ—εὐαρεστητέον om. DH εὐεργετητέον Α 15.
16 οὐκ εἴ τι] οὐκέτι P, ἐπεὶ DH
16 ἰδίαν FDH: om. AHP (v) ἀλλ’ εἰ FA: ἀλλ’ ἢ HPDH τρόπω Α πόλεως ὡς HP
17 τε om. FDH καὶ κυβερνᾶται σωτηρίως ADH: σωτηρίως καὶ κυβερνᾶται FHP σωτηρίως om. Mang.
19 αὐστηροῦ καὶ αὐχμηροῦ F: αὐχμηροῦ καὶ αὐστηροῦ ΑΗΡ ν) βίου om. Α
20 αὐτοῦ FA: αὐτὼ HP (v)
21 τὸν] τὴν L (Turn.) αὐτομαθεῖ coni. Mang. πλουσία FAP2: πλουσίω ΗΡ1 (v)
22 6 om. Α

2. 7—17 DH fol. 337r Φίλωνος: καθάπερ ἰατρὸς—καὶ κυβερνάται σωτηρίως.

3. 23—345,5 N fol. 159v: πάντων—ἄνω προῆλθον.

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