# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 196

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/196

τῇ μὲν οὖν κατὰ θεὸν καὶ δι’ αὐτὸν μόνον γινομένῃ προσήκουσαν ὁ νόμος ἀπένειμε θυσίαν τὴν ὁλόκαυτον, ὁλοκλήρῳ καὶ παντελεῖ μηδὲν ἐπιφερομένῃ τῆς θνητῆς φιλαυτίας ὁλόκληρον καὶ παντελῆ· τὴν δὲ χάριν ἀνθρώπων, ἐπειδὴ διαίρεσιν ἐπεδέχετο ἡ δόξα, καὶ αὐτὸς διεῖλε, κατὰ μὲν τὴν μετουσίαν τῶν ἀγαθῶν ὁρίσας θυσίαν ἣν ὠνόμασε σωτήριον, τῇ δὲ φυγῇ τῶν κακῶν ἀπονείμας τὴν περὶ ἁμαρτίας. ὡς τρεῖς εἶναι δεόντως ἐπὶ τρισί,

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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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