Philo Judaeus De Praemiis Et Poenis Et De Exsecrationibus 91

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[91] θεοῦ καὶ γέρας αὐτῇ παρασχόντος τὸ ἀνεπιβούλευτον. 16 οὕτως μὲν ὁ πρεσβύτερος καὶ χρόνῳ καὶ φύσει καταλυθήσεται πόλεμος, ἡμερωθέντων
καὶ μεταβαλόντων τῶν θηρίων πρὸς τὸ τιθασόν. ὁ δὲ p. 423 Μ. νεώτερος καὶ ἐπιτηδεύσει γενόμενος ἐκ πλεονεξίας ῥᾳδίως διαλυθήσεται, τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὥς γέ μοι δοκεῖ, δυσωπηθέντων, εἰ μελλήσουσιν ἀγριώτεροι ζῴων ἀλόγων ἐξετάζεσθαι, ὅτε τὰς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλόγων ζημίας καὶ βλάβας ἐκπεφεύγασιν.

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.) — 91 focus

Thus, then, the most ancient war, both in point of time and in nature, will be put an end to, when all the wild beasts will be tamed and will have altered their dispositions so as to become manageable. But the more modern war, which has arisen out of the deliberate purposes of men from their covetousness, will be likewise easily put an end to, as it appears to me, since men will be ashamed to be seen to be more savage than even the brute beasts, after they have escaped all injury and damage from them;

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