Philo Judaeus, De Cherubim, ed. Leopold Cohn, 3

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[3] ἐπεὶ καὶ τὴν μέσην παιδείαν τὴν ἐν τοῖς ἐγκυκλίοις χορεύουσαν ὁρῶμεν Ἄγαρ δὶς μὲν ἐξιοῦσαν ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχούσης ἀρετῆς Σάρρας, ἅπαξ δὲ τὴν προτέραν ὁδὸν ὑποστρέφουσαν, ἣ τότε μὲν ἀποδρᾶσα, οὐ φυγαδευθεῖσα, κατάγεται
¹ ὑπαντήσαντος ἀγγέλου, ὅς ἐστι θεῖος λόγος, εἰς τὸν δεσποτικὸν οἶκον (Gen. 16, 6 ss.), αὖθις δὲ κατὰ τὸ παντελὲς ἀνεπάνακτος ἐκβάλλεται (Gen. 21, 14).

De Cherubim. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

De Cherubim (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

Translations (1)

On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 3 focus

[3] Since we see Agar, ¹ by whom we understand the middle kind of instruction which is confined to the encyclical system, twice going forth from Sarah, who is the symbol of predominant virtue, and once returning back by the same road, inasmuch as after she had fled the first time, without being banished by her mistress, she returned to see her master’s house, having been met by an angel, as the holy scriptures read: but the second time, she is utterly cast out, and is never to be brought back again.

Notes on the current edition

De Cherubim

1. περὶ. . . κάϊν MGH, φῶνος περὶ τῶν χερουβεὶμ καὶ . . . κάϊν AP, φίλωνος περὶ τῶν χερουβὶμ καὶ τῆς φλογίνης ῥομφαίας (omissis reliquis) UF
1 κατῴκησεν M
2 καὶ ἔταξε seclusi, cf. §
11 ἐπέταξε P, ἐπέταταζε (sic) Α χερυβεὶμ AP
4 μὲν] μὲν οὖν AP
5 θείς] τιθείς UFH G αὐτὰ πραγμάτων F ἀνόδου UF
7 κωλύεται UF δὲ MGH
8 καταλειφθέντι G
9 κατελθεῖν] ἀνελθεῖν mgHL τὸν] τῶ UF
10 πιεσθέντα καὶ om. APUF ὑποβεβλημένῳ UF ἀνάγκην F
11 ἀθανάτως UF κορακισθέντα AP
12 ἶνα Η, om. UF ὑπομένει U, ὑπομένειν F
13 παιδιὰν F ἐν τοῖς UF: ἐν om. ceteri κυκλίοις F ἐγχορεύουσαν coni. Maug., χορηγοῦσαν Creuzer Ἅγαρ om. UF μὲν γὰρ G, γὰρ eras. in Η
15 ἢ om. MAPGH τότε μὲν] τὸ μὲν MAP

Philo Judaeus De Cherubim 3

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