# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) Περὶ ἱεροῦ.

Philo Judaeus, De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv), Περὶ περιτομῆς.. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-specialibus-legibus-lib-i-iv/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%E1%BD%B6%20%E1%BC%B1%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF%E1%BF%A6.

Τὸ μὲν ἀνωτάτω καὶ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἱερὸν θεοῦ νομίζειν τὸν σύμπαντα χρὴ κόσμον εἶναι, νεὼ μὲν ἔχοντα τὸ ἁγιώτατον τῆς τῶν ὄντων οὐσίας μέρος, οὐρανόν, ἀναθήματα δὲ τοὺς ἀστέρας, ἱερέας δὲ τοὺς ὑποδιακόνους αὐτοῦ τῶν δυνάμεων ἀγγέλους, ἀσωμάτους ψυχάς, οὐ κράματα ἐκ λογικῆς καὶ ἀλόγου φύσεως, οἵας τὰς ἡμετέρας εἶναι συμβέβηκεν, ἀλλ’ ἐκτετμημένας τὸ ἄλογον, ὅλας δι’ ὅλων νοεράς, λογισμοὺς ἀκραιφνεῖς, μονάδι ὁμοιουμένας.

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Philo Judaeus, De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv), ed. Leopold Cohn, Paul Wendland. 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg024.local001/.