Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 42

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[42] θαυμάσαντες καὶ καταπλαγέντες εἰς ἔννοιαν ἦλθον ἀκόλουθον τοῖς φανεῖσιν, ὅτι ἄρα τοσαῦτα
κάλλη καὶ οὕτως ὑπερβάλλουσα τάξις οὐκ ἀπαυτοματισθέντα γέγονεν, ἀλλ’ ὑπό τινος δημιουργοῦ κοσμοποιοῦ, καὶ ὅτι πρόνοιαν ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι· νόμος γὰρ φύσεως ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τὸ πεποιηκὸς τοῦ γεγονότος.

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.) — 42 focus

[42] admiring, and being struck with awe and amazement at these things, they are come to form notions consistent with what they behold, that all these beautiful things, excessive as they are, and of such admirable arrangement and contrivance, were not produced spontaneously but were the work of some maker, the Creator of the whole world, and therefore that there must of necessity be a superintending providence. For it is a law of nature, that the Creator must take care of what he has created.

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