Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 69

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[69] τί ἂν οὖν παθὼν ἀξίαν ἐδεδώκει δίκην, ὃς διὰ μιᾶς πράξεως οὐδὲν τῶν βιαίων καὶ ἀσεβῶν παρέλιπεν; ἴσως ἂν εἴποι
τις· ἀναιρεθείς. ὁ λογισμὸς οὗτος ἀνθρώπου τὸ μέγα δικαστήριον οὐ βλέποντος· ἄνθρωποι μὲν γὰρ πέρας τιμωριῶν εἶναι νομίζουσι τὸν θάνατον, ἐν δὲ τῷ θείῳ δικαστηρίῳ μόλις οὗτός ἐστιν ἀρχή.

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.) — 69 focus

[69] What then could possibly have been inflicted upon him, which would have been an adequate punishment for him, who thus in one single action left no description of violence and impiety unperformed? Perhaps some one will say he should have been put to death at once; this is a human mode of reasoning, fit for one who does not consider the great tribunal of all; for men look upon death as the extreme limit of all punishments, but in the view of the divine tribunal it is scarcely the beginning of them.

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