# De vita Mosis (lib. i‑ii) 2.3-4

Philo Judaeus, De vita Mosis (lib. i‑ii), 2.3 to 2.4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-vita-mosis-lib-i-ii/2.3

περὶ ὧν νυνὶ λέγειν εἱλόμην ἀναγκαίως ὑπολαβὼν τῷ αὐτῷ πάντ’ ἐφαρμόττειν· ἐγένετο γὰρ προνοίᾳ θεοῦ βασιλεύς τε καὶ νομοθέτης καὶ ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ προφήτης καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῳ τὰ πρωτεῖα ἠνέγκατο· διὰ τί δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ πάντ’ ἐφαρμόττει, δηλωτέον. βασιλεῖ προσήκει προστάττειν ἃ χρὴ καὶ ἀπαγορεύειν ἃ μὴ χρή· πρόσταξις δὲ τῶν πρακτέων καὶ ἀπαγόρευσις τῶν οὐ πρακτέων ἴδιον νόμου, ὡς εὐθὺς εἶναι τὸν μὲν βασιλέα νόμον ἔμψυχον, τὸν δὲ νόμον βασιλέα δίκαιον.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg022.local001/.