Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 73

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[73] ὥσπερ οὖν τῷ συναρπασθέντι ὑπὸ χειμάρρου φοβερὸν μὲν τὸ πλησίον ῥεῦμα ᾧ κατασύρεται, φοβερώτερον δὲ τὸ ἄνωθεν ἐπιφερόμενον, ὃ τῇ μὲν βίᾳ συντόνως ἐπωθεῖ καὶ ἀλήκτως, τῇ δ’ ἐπαναστάσει μετεωριζόμενον ἐπικλύζει, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ τῶν κακῶν ἀνιαρὰ μὲν τὰ ἐν χερσίν, ἀργαλεώτερα δὲ τὰ ἐκ φόβου ῥέοντα·
χορηγεῖ γὰρ ὁ φόβος καθάπερ ἐκ πηγῆς τὰ ὀδυνηρά.

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.) — 73 focus

[73] Therefore, as a man who is being carried away by a torrent shudders at the nearest waves by which he is being hurried away, and still more at those coming upon him from above, since the one is continually and incessantly propelling him forward with violence, but the other being raised above him threatens to overwhelm him utterly, so in the same manner those evils which are present are grievous, but those which proceed from fear of the future are more grievous still; for fear continually supplies sorrowful feelings as from an everlasting spring.

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