# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 130-4-131

Philo Judaeus, De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv), 130 to 131. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-specialibus-legibus-lib-i-iv/130-4

καὶ δῆτα οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν καθάρσεσι χολῆς ἐφθάρησαν, ὡς καὶ τὸ χωρίον ἀπὸ τοῦ περὶ αὐτοὺς πάθους τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν λαβεῖν· ἐκλήθη γὰρ „Μνήματα τῆς ἐπιθυμίας“ (Num. 11,34), ἧς οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ψυχῇ, καθάπερ ἐδίδαξεν ὁ λόγος, μεῖζον κακόν. διὸ παγκάλως ἐν ταῖς παραινέσεσι Μωυσῆς φησιν· „οὐ ποιήσει ἕκαστος τὸ ἀρεστὸν ἐνώπιον αὑτοῦ“ (Deut. 12, 8), τὸ δ’ ἐστὶν ἴσον τῷ "μηδεὶς τῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ τῇ αὑτοῦ χαριζέσθω“· εὐαρεστείτω γάρ τις θεῷ, κόσμῳ, φύσει, νόμοις, σοφοῖς ἀνδράσι, φιλαυτίαν παραιτούμενος, εἰ μέλλει καλὸς κἀγαθὸς γενήσεσθαι.

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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.
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