# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 152

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/152

ὑπὲρ δὲ τοῦ μηδένα τῶν διδόντων ὀνειδίζειν τοῖς λαμβάνουσι, κελεύει τὰς ἀπαρχὰς εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν κομίζεσθαι πρότερον, εἶτ’ ἐνθένδε τοὺς ἱερεῖς λαμβάνειν· ἥρμοττε γὰρ θεῷ μὲν τοὺς εὐεργετουμένους ἐν ἅπασι τοῖς κατὰ τὸν βίον χαριστηρίους ἀνάγειν ἀπαρχάς, τὸν δὲ ἅτε μηδενὸς ἐπιδεᾶ τοῖς ἀμφὶ τὸ ἱερὸν ὑπηρέταις καὶ λειτουργοῖς χαρίζεσθαι μετὰ σεμνότητος καὶ τιμῆς τῆς ἁπάσης· τὸ γὰρ μὴ παρ’ ἀνθρώπων ἀλλὰ παρὰ τοῦ πάντων εὐεργέτου δοκεῖν λαμβάνειν ἀδυσώπητον ἔχει δωρεάν.

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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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