# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 167

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/167

τὸ δ’ ἀκριβὲς καὶ περιττὸν τῆς ἐξετάσεως οὐχ ἕνεκα τῶν καταθυομένων ἀλλὰ τοῦ περὶ τοὺς καταθύοντας ἀνυπαιτίου γίνεται· βούλεται γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἀναδιδάξαι διὰ συμβόλων, ὁπότε προσέρχοιντο βωμοῖς ἢ εὐξόμενοι ἢ εὐχαριστήσοντες, μηδὲν ἀρρώστημα ἢ νόσημα ἢ πάθος ἐπιφέρεσθαι τῇ ψυχῇ, πειρᾶσθαι δ’ ὅλην δι’ ὅλων ἀκηλίδωτον ἁγιάζειν, ὡς ἰδόντα μὴ ἀποστραφῆναι θεόν.

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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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