The Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. II (Yonge)
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- C. D. Yonge
- Status:
- Selection or partial work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~310,000 words · 1,470 passages
Cite this work
- APAPhilo of Alexandria. (n.d.). The Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. II (Yonge) (C. D. Yonge, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/philo-of-alexandria/the-works-of-philo-judaeus-vol-ii-yonge
- MLAPhilo of Alexandria. The Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. II (Yonge). Translated by C. D. Yonge. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/philo-of-alexandria/the-works-of-philo-judaeus-vol-ii-yonge.
- ChicagoPhilo of Alexandria. The Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. II (Yonge). Translated by C. D. Yonge. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/philo-of-alexandria/the-works-of-philo-judaeus-vol-ii-yonge.
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What it is about
Volume II of Philo's treatises in C. D. Yonge's English translation.
Context and history
Philo comes down to us as a mass of independent treatises, and the division into volumes belongs to Yonge's nineteenth-century English edition, not to Philo. So the reference that works is the treatise title and the paragraph number, not the volume: that can be checked in any edition. And the same point as in the first volume holds: this Philo reached us because Christians copied him.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
among them all ; and they have begun to do this thing, and now there will not fail unto them anything of all the things which they desire to do. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that each may not understand the voice A his neighbour. And the Lord scattered them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they desisted from building the city, and the tower. On this account, the name of it was called Confusion, because there the Lord confused the languages Df all the earth, and from thence the Lord scattered them over the face of all the earth."* II. Those who are discontented at the constitution under which their fathers have lived, being always eager to blame and to accuse the laws, being impious men, use these and similar instances as foundations for their impiety, saying, "Are ye even » Genesis xL 1. VOL. IX. D 2 PHILO JUDJEC7S.