Philo Judaeus, De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus, ed. Leopold Cohn, 71

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[71] πῶς οὖν ὁ θάνατος αὐτῷ συνδιαιωνίζει, σκόπει. τεττάρων ὄντων ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ παθῶν, δυοῖν μὲν περὶ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐνεστὸς ἢ μέλλον, ἡδονῆς καὶ ἐπιθυμίας, δυοῖν δὲ περὶ τὸ κακὸν παρὸν ἢ προσδοκώμενον, λύπης καὶ φόβου, τὴν μὲν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ῥίζαις αὐταῖς ἐξέτεμε συζυγίαν, ἵνα μηδ’ ἐκ
τύχης ἡσθῇ ποτε ἢ ἐπιθυμήσῃ τινὸς ἡδέος, τὴν δὲ τοῦ κακοῦ μόνην ἐνεφύτευσεν εἰς λύπην εὐθυμίας ἀμιγῆ καὶ φόβον ἄκρατον.

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.) — 71 focus

[71] Consider now then how it is that death can be said to be never ending in this man’s case; since there are four different affections to which the soul is liable, two of them being conversant with good either present or future, namely, pleasure and desire; and two with evil either present or expected, namely, sorrow and fear; it cuts up the pair of those which are conversant with good by the roots, in order that the man may never receive pleasure from any accident of fortune, nor ever feel a desire even for anything pleasant; and it leaves him only those affections conversant about evil, sorrow without any mixture of cheerfulness, and unmingled fear,

Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 71

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