Philo Judaeus, Legatio Ad Gaium, ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter, 85

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[85] φαντασιωθεὶς γὰρ τὸν ἄπειρον αἰῶνα καὶ λογισάμενος,
ὅτι αὐτὸς μὲν ἀεὶ βιώσεται, ὁ δὲ ἀδελφὸς ἀεὶ τεθνήξεται, καὶ μετὰ τῆς ἀθανασίας ἀθάνατον τὸ ἐπ’ ἐκείνῳ πένθος ἀναδέξεται, θαυμαστὴν ἐμεγαλούργησεν ἀντίδοσιν ἀνακερασάμενος αὑτῷ μὲν τὸ θνητόν, τῷ δὲ ἀδελφῷ τὸ ἄφθαρτον, καὶ ἀνισότητα, τὴν ἀδικίας ἀρχήν, ἐνηφάνισεν ἰσότητι, ἥτις ἐστὶ πηγὴ δικαιοσύνης.

Legatio Ad Gaium. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Legatio Ad Gaium (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. pera quae supersunt, Volume 6. Cohn, Leonard; Reiter, Siegfried, editors. Berlin: Reimer, 1915.)

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On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 4. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.) — 85 focus

[85] for having acquired the idea that eternity was never-ending, and considering that he was to live for ever, and that his brother was to be dead for ever, and that in conjunction with his own immortality he should likewise be enduring an undying sorrow on account of his brother, he conceived and carried out a most marvellous system of counterbalancing, mingling mortality with himself and immortality with his brother, and thus he modified inequality, which is the beginning of all injustice, by equality, which is the fountain of justice.

Philo Judaeus Legatio Ad Gaium 85

ed. Leopold Cohn, ed. Siegfried Reiter

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