Philo Judaeus, De Aeternitate Mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn, 2

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[2] εἰ μὲν οὖν ἐνασκηθέντες τοῖς φρονήσεως καὶ σωφροσύνης καὶ πάσης ἀρετῆς δόγμασιν ἀπερρυψάμεθα τὰς ἐκ παθῶν καὶ νοσημάτων κηλῖδας, οὐκ ἂν ἴσως ἀπηξίωσεν ὁ θεὸς ἄκρως κεκαθαρμέναις καὶ φαιδρυναμέναις αὐγοειδῶς
ψυχαῖς ἐπιστήμην τῶν οὐρανίων ἢ δι’ ὀνειράτων ἢ διὰ χρησμῶν ἢ διὰ σημείων ἢ τεράτων ὑφηγεῖσθαι· ἐπεὶ δὲ τοὺς ἀφροσύνης καὶ ἀδικίας καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κακιῶν ἀναμαξάμενοι [στοχασμοὺς καὶ] τύπους ¹²³ δυσεκπλύτους p. 488 M. ἔχομεν, ἀγαπᾶν χρή, κἂν εἰκόσι στοχασμοῖς δι’ αὑτῶν μίμημά τι τῆς ἀληθείας ἀνευρίσκωμεν.

De Aeternitate Mundi. Philo Judaeus. ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Aeternitate Mundi (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.)

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On the Incorruptibility of the World First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 2 focus

[2] If then, we, who have been practised and trained in all the doctrines of prudence, and temperance, and virtue, have discarded all the stains of the passions and diseases, perhaps God would not disdain to give to souls completely purified and cleansed, so as to appear in his image, a knowledge of heavenly things either by means of dreams, or of oracles, or of signs, or of wonders. But since we have on us the marks of folly, and injustice, and of all other vices strongly stamped upon us and difficult to be effaced, we must be content even if we are only able by them to discover some faint copy and imitation of the truth.

Notes on the current edition

De aeternitate mundi

1. Tit. Φίλωνος ἰουδαίου περὶ ἀφθαρσίας κόσμου UH. τοῦ αὐτοῦ περὶ ἀφθαρσίας κόσμου P, φίλωνος περὶ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου γενέσεως Μ

2. 1.
2 θεὸν καλεῖν ἄξιον HP: ἐγκαλεῖν ἄξιον MU (έγκαλεῖν ἄξιον θεόν Bernays)
2 γεννητὴς] γενετῆς mg Η2Ρ2 (γενέτης v)
5 αἰεὶ MHP: εἰ U
7 νόμος Bernays: πόνος codd.: πόνος vel φθόνος coni. Mang. πλείων v (Turn.): πλέον codd. (cf. de vita cout. § 35)
8 οὖν om. P1 τοῖς M: τῆς UHP πάσης MU: πᾶσιν HP (Turn.)
9 ἀπερρυψάμεθα P (coni. Mang.): ἀπερυψάμεθα U. ἀπερρϊψάμεθα Η (v), ἀπεριψάμεθα M
10 ἴσως om. HP (Turn.) φαιδρυναμέναις MUH2: φαιδρυνομέναις Η1Ρ 10.
11 αὐγοειδῶς Mang.: αὐτοειδῶς codd.
11 ψυχαῖς M: εὐχαῖς UHP (Turn.) χρησμῶν scripsi: χρήσεων codd.
12 δ·ὲ MU: δέ καὶ ΗΡ (v)
13 στοχασμοὺς καὶ seclusi; μολυσμοὺς (pro στοχασμοὺς) Bernays, τὰ ἐγκαύματα vel τἀς εἰκόνας (pro τοὺς στοχασμοὺς) coni. Mang.

3.
1 cf. Plat. Tim.
27 c ὅσοι καὶ κατὰ βραχὺ σωφροσύνης μετέχουσιν. ἐπὶ παντὸς ὁρμῇ καὶ σμικροῦ καὶ μεγάλου πράγματος θεὸν ἀεί που καλοῦσιν, ἡμᾶς δέ τοὺς περὶ παντὸς λόγους ποιεῖσθαί πῃ μέλλοντας ᾗ γέγονεν ἢ καὶ ἀγεννές ἐστιν . . . ἀνάγκη θεούς τε καὶ θεὰς ἐπικαλουμένους εὔχεσθαι πάντα κατὰ νοῦν ἐκείνοις μὲν μάλιστα ἑπομένως δὲ ἡμίν εἰπεῖν.

Philo Judaeus De Aeternitate Mundi 2

ed. Siegfried Reiter, ed. Leopold Cohn

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