The Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. 3 of 4: The Contemporary of Josephus (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Yonge, Charles Duke

 
9781440071171: The Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. 3 of 4: The Contemporary of Josephus (Classic Reprint)

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A TBEATISE OX THIS LIFE OP MOSES, that js to say, ON THE THEOLOGY AND PROPHETIC OFFICE OF MOSES. BOOK I. p I. I have conceived the idea of writing the life of IVfoses, who, according to the account of some persons, was the lawgiver of the Jews, but according to others only an interpreter of the sacred laws, the greatest and most perfect man that ever lived, having a desire to make his character fully known to those who ought not to remain in ignorance respecting him, for the glory of the laws which he left hehind him litis reached pver the whole world, and has penetrated to the very furthest limits of the universe j and those who do really and truly understand him are not many, perhaps partly out of envy, or else from the disposition so common to many persons of resisting the commands which are delivered by lawgivers in different states, since the historians who have flourished among the Greeks have not chosen to think him worthy of ntion, the greater part of whom have both in the

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ISBN 10 :  0265852951 ISBN 13 :  9780265852958
Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019
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