# De vita Mosis (lib. i‑ii) 173

Philo Judaeus, De vita Mosis (lib. i‑ii), ΛΟΓΟΣ ΠΡΩΤΟΣ. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-vita-mosis-lib-i-ii/173

εἰ δὲ δὴ καὶ πλωτά, τίς εὐπορία σκαφῶν εἰς περαίωσιν;“ ὁ δὲ ταῦτα ἀκούων τοῖς μὲν συνεγίνωσκε, τῶν δὲ χρησμῶν ἐμέμνητο· καὶ διανείμας τὸν νοῦν καὶ τὸν λόγον κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον τῷ μὲν ἐνετύγχανεν ἀφανῶς τῷ θεῷ, ἵν’ ἐξ ἀμηχάνων ῥύσηται συμφορῶν, δι’ οὗ δ’ ἐθάρσυνε καὶ παρηγόρει τοὺς καταβοῶντας „μὴ ἀναπίπτετε“ λέγων· „οὐχ ὁμοίως ἄνθρωπος ἀμύνεται καὶ θεός.

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Philo Judaeus, De vita Mosis (lib. i‑ii), ed. Leopold Cohn. 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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