# De specialibus legibus (lib. i‑iv) 269

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/269

τίνα δὲ διὰ τούτων ὡς διὰ συμβόλων αἰνίττεται, δι’ ἑτέρων ἠκριβώσαμεν ἀλληγοροῦντες. ἀναγκαῖον οὖν τοὺς μέλλοντας φοιτᾶν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἐπὶ μετουσίᾳ θυσίας τό τε σῶμα φαιδρύνεσθαι καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν πρὸ τοῦ σώματος· δεσπότις γὰρ καὶ βασιλὶς καὶ ἐν ἅπασι κρείττων ἅτε θειοτέρας φύσεως μεταλαχοῦσα. τὰ δὲ φαιδρύνοντα διάνοιάν ἐστι σοφία καὶ τὰ σοφίας δόγματα πρὸς τὴν θεωρίαν τοῦ κόσμου καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ ποδηγετοῦντα καὶ ὁ τῶν ἄλλων ἀρετῶν ἱερὸς χορὸς καὶ αἱ κατ’ ἀρετὰς καλαὶ καὶ σφόδρα ἐπαινεταὶ πράξεις.

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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/.