Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 106

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[106] ὅσα μὲν οὖν ἂν ἴδῃ ἢ ἀκούσῃ ἢ συνόλως αἴσθηται κατὰ τὴν ἐπικέλευσιν τοῦ νοῦ, πάντα ἐστὶν ἄρρενα καὶ τέλεια, προσγίνεται γὰρ ἑκάστῳ τὸ εὖ· ὅσα δ’ ἂν χωρὶς ἡγεμόνος, ὑπὸ ἀναρχίας ὥσπερ πόλιν τὸ σῶμα ἡμῶν διόλλυσι. πάλιν οὖν καὶ τῶν αἰσθήσεων τὰς μὲν
ἑπομένας τῷ νῷ κινήσεις, αἵπερ ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἀμείνους εἰσίν, ὁμολογητέον κατὰ θεὸν συμβαίνειν, τὰς δὲ ἀφηνιαζούσας ἀναθετέον ἑαυτοῖς ἀλόγως ὑπὸ τῆς τῶν ἐκτὸς αἰσθητῶν φορᾶς ἀγομένοις.

De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 106 focus

[106] but whatever is done without any guide, in a state of anarchy, in such case the body ruins us as anarchy ruins a city. Again, we must consider that those motions of the outward senses which proceed in obedience to the mind, and which of necessity are the better, do take place according to the dispensation of God; but these which are obstinate and disobedient, we must impute to ourselves, when we are carried away irrationally by the impetuosity of the outward senses.

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