Can anyone help? I would like to see these in the original (Greek? Armenian?):
Peter's Site:
Ralph Marcus' translation of the 'Armenian' Philo is here;
Edit: I think what I am looking for is here, in J. Rendel Harris' Fragments of Philo Judaeus [1882], pp.47-8. And, most easily copied/formatted already, here:
Yonge, Vol.4 [1855], pp.242-3:
On Philo mss. generally, this many interest someone.
Peter's Site:
{Yonge's edition includes numerous miscellaneous fragments including From the Parallels of John of Damascus (which includes Greek fragments from Quaestiones in Genesis et Exodum, whose translation is generally based on Armenian), from An Anonymous Collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and from An Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of the French King. These have been relocated to an appendix in this volume.}
Ralph Marcus' translation of the 'Armenian' Philo is here;
Edit: I think what I am looking for is here, in J. Rendel Harris' Fragments of Philo Judaeus [1882], pp.47-8. And, most easily copied/formatted already, here:
Ἔνιοι προκόψαντες ἐπ' ἀρετὴν, ὑπενόστησαν πρὶν ἐφικέσθαι τοῦ τέλους, τὴν ἄρτι φυομένην ἀριστοκρατείαν ἐν ψυχῇ καθελούσης τῆς παλαιᾶς ὀλιγοκρατείας, ἡ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἠρεμήσασα, πάλιν ἐξ ὑπαρχῆς μετὰ πλείονος δυνάμεως ἐναπέθετο. Ὅταν ἄνθρωπος κατορθώσῃ βίον ἐνάρετον δι' ἀσκήσεως, καὶ ἀγαθῆς πολιτείας, καὶ ἔστιν ὑπὸ πάντων ἐγνωσμένος, ὅτι ἔστιν εὐσεβὴς καὶ φοβούμενος τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ ἐκπέσῃ εἰς ἁμαρτίαν, τοῦτό ἐστι παράπτωμα. Ἀνῆλθεν γὰρ εἰς τὸ ὕψος τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ πέπτωκεν εἰς τὸν πυθμένα τοῦ ᾅδου.
Yonge, Vol.4 [1855], pp.242-3:
'About monks who break their vows.
The words of Philo, from the Questions arising in Exodus.
P. 784. C. The reasoning of some persons is very rapidly satiated, who, though they have been borne upwards on wings for a little while, yet do presently return back again; not so much flying upwards, says Philo, as being dragged down again to the lowest depths of hell. But happy are they who do not draw back.
From the first book of the Questions in Exodus.
P. 774. B. All those who have stumbled, being unable to proceed with upright feet, go on slowly, being fatigued a long time before they come to their journey's end; so also the soul is hindered from proceeding successfully on the path which leads to piety if it has previously fallen in with any of the byeroads of wickedness, for they are great hindrances to it, and the causes of its stumbling, by means of which the mind becoming lame, proceeds too slowly on the road, according to nature; and this road, according to nature, is that which ends at the Father of the universe.
P. 343. D. Some men, making improvement, have returned back to virtue before coming to the end, the ancient principle of oligarchy having destroyed the principle of aristocracy lately engendered in the soul, which having been quiet for a little while, has subsequently come up over again with greater power than before.
Ibid. When a man rightly establishes himself in a virtuous life, with meditation, and practice, and good government, and when having been known by all men as a pious man and one who fears God, he falls into sin, that is a great fall, for he has ascended up to the height of heaven, and fallen down into the abyss of hell.
The words of Philo, from the Questions arising in Exodus.
P. 784. C. The reasoning of some persons is very rapidly satiated, who, though they have been borne upwards on wings for a little while, yet do presently return back again; not so much flying upwards, says Philo, as being dragged down again to the lowest depths of hell. But happy are they who do not draw back.
From the first book of the Questions in Exodus.
P. 774. B. All those who have stumbled, being unable to proceed with upright feet, go on slowly, being fatigued a long time before they come to their journey's end; so also the soul is hindered from proceeding successfully on the path which leads to piety if it has previously fallen in with any of the byeroads of wickedness, for they are great hindrances to it, and the causes of its stumbling, by means of which the mind becoming lame, proceeds too slowly on the road, according to nature; and this road, according to nature, is that which ends at the Father of the universe.
P. 343. D. Some men, making improvement, have returned back to virtue before coming to the end, the ancient principle of oligarchy having destroyed the principle of aristocracy lately engendered in the soul, which having been quiet for a little while, has subsequently come up over again with greater power than before.
Ibid. When a man rightly establishes himself in a virtuous life, with meditation, and practice, and good government, and when having been known by all men as a pious man and one who fears God, he falls into sin, that is a great fall, for he has ascended up to the height of heaven, and fallen down into the abyss of hell.
On Philo mss. generally, this many interest someone.
Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Mon Jan 01, 2024 4:25 pm