{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0018.tlg033.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0018.tlg033.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0018.tlg033.local001","title":"De providentia","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"PHILO JUDAEUS Phil.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0018-philo-judaeus/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"De providentia, ed. F. H. Colson, Philo, vol. 9, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1941 (repr. 1967): 454–506. PHILO Judaeus Senior Q: 4,224: Theol.","citationShort":"De providentia, ed. F. H. Colson, Philo, vol. 9, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1941 (repr. 1967): 454–506. PHILO Judaeus Senior"},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"De providentia. De providentia, ed. F. H. Colson, Philo, vol. 9, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1941 (repr. 1967): 454–506. PHILO Judaeus Senior. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0018.tlg033.local001","excerpt":"Θεοῦ πρόνοιαν, ὡς ἔνεστιν ἀνθρωπίνῳ λογισμῷ, τρανοτέραν τὴν τοῦ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἀγαθοῦ λαβὼν φαντασίαν, γελάσῃ τὰ παρ' ἡμῖν, ἃ τέως ἐθαύμαζες. ἀεὶ γὰρ ἀπουσίᾳ τῶν κρειττόνων τιμᾶται τὰ χείρονα, τὴν ἐκείνων κληρονομοῦντα τάξιν· ἐπι- φανέντων δὲ ὑποστέλλει, δευτερείοις ἄθλων ἀρκού- μενα. καταπλαγεὶς οὖν τὸ θεοειδὲς ἐκεῖνο ἀγαθόν τε καὶ καλόν, πάντως ἐννοήσεις, ὅτι παρὰ Θεῷ τῶν εἰρημένων πρότερον οὐδὲν καθ' ἑαυτὸ τῆς ἀγαθοῦ μοίρας ἠξίωται, διότι τὰ μὲν ἀργύρου μέταλλα καὶ χρυσοῦ γῆς ἐστὶ ἡ φαυλοτάτη μοῖρα, τῆς πρὸς καρπῶν ἀνειμένης γένεσιν ὅλῳ καὶ τῷ παντὶ λειπομένη. οὐ γάρ ἐσθ' ὅμοιον τροφῆς, ἧς ἄνευ ζῆν ἀδύνατον, εὐπορία χρημάτων. μία τού- των ἐστὶ βάσανος ἐναργεστάτη λιμός, ᾧ τὸ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἀναγκαῖον καὶ χρήσιμον δοκιμάζεται· θησαυροὺς γὰρ τοὺς πανταχοῦ πάντας ἀντικατ- αλλάξαιτ' ἄν τις βραχείας ποτὲ τροφῆς ἄσμενος. ὅταν δὲ ἡ τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀφθονία, μυρίῳ φορᾶς 〈καὶ〉 ἀκατασχέτῳ πλήθει…","divisions":[{"label":"2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0018.tlg033.local001/#tlg0018-tlg033-local001-2"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0018.tlg033.local001/#tlg0018-tlg033-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0018.tlg033.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0018.tlg033.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0018/tlg033/local001.json.gz"}}