# Stobaei Hermetica 25.8

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 25. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/25.8

οὕτως ἑκάστη ψυχή, καὶ ἄνθρωπευομένη καὶ ἄλλως ἐπιγεἴζονσα, οἶδεν ὅπου πορευτέον αὐτῇ ἐστι· πλὴν εἰ μή τις τῶν Τυφωνίων, ὦ τέκνον, παρελθὼν λέγοι ὅτι δυνατὸν ταῦρον μὲν ἐν βυθῷ ἐν ⟨δὲ⟩ ἀέρι χελώνην διαζῆν. εἰ δὴ τοῦτο πάσχουσι σαρκὶ καὶ αἵματι βεβαπτισμέναι, ὡς μηδὲν παρὰ τάξιν πράσσειν κἂν κολάζωνται,—κόλασις γὰρ αὐταῖς ἡ ἐνσωμάτωσις,—πόσῳ πλέον [βαπτισμοῦ καὶ] ⟨τῆς⟩ κολάσεως ⟨ἀπολυθεῖσαι⟩, καὶ ἐλευθερίας ⟨τῆς⟩ ἰδίας μετασχοῦσαι;

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Anonymous, Stobaei Hermetica, ed. Walter Scott. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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