Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 47

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[47] δὲ μετίασιν οἱ τὸν θεὸν θεῷ φαντασιωθέντες, φωτὶ φῶς. 8 τὸ μὲν οὖν μέγιστον ἆθλον εἴρηται. πρὸς δὲ τούτοις λαμβάνει βραβεῖον ὁ
ἀσκητὴς λεχθῆναι μὲν οὐκ εὔφημον, νοηθῆναι δὲ ἄριστον· ὀνομάζεται δὲ τὸ βραβεῖον πλάτους νάρκη (Genes. 32,25) συμβολικῶς· ἀλαζονεία μὲν γὰρ καὶ ὑπεροψία p. 416 Μ. διὰ τοῦ πλάτους ἐμφαίνεται, χεομένης τῆς ψυχῆς ἄμετρον ἐφ’ ἃ μὴ δεῖ χύσιν, διὰ δὲ τῆς νάρκης μετεώρου καὶ πεφυσημένου πράγματος, οἰήσεως, συστολή.

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.) — 47 focus

We have now described the greatest prize of all: but in addition to these prizes, the meditator on virtue receives another prize, not well-sounding indeed as to name, but very excellent to be conceived of; and this prize is called "the torpor of breadth," speaking figuratively. Now by breadth haughtiness and arrogance are typified; the soul, in those conditions, pouring forth an immoderate effusion over objects which are not desirable: and by torpor is typified the contraction of conceit, an elated and puffed-up thing.

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