Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 108

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[108] τὸ τοίνυν φύραμα κυρίως, εἰ χρὴ τἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν, ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν αὐτοί, συμπεφορημένων καὶ συγκεκριμένων
πλείστων οὐσιῶν, ἵνα ἀποτελεσθῶμεν· ψυχρὸν γὰρ θερμῷ καὶ ξηρὸν ὑγρῷ, δυνάμεις ἐναντίας, ἀναμίξας καὶ ἀνακερασάμενος ὁ ζῳοπλάστης ἓν ἐκ πασῶν ἕκαστον ἡμῶν ἀπειργάζετο συμφόρημα, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ φύραμα εἴρηται. τούτου τοῦ συμφορήματος, ὃ ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα δύο τὰ ἀνωτάτω τμήματα κεκλήρωται, τὰς ἀπαρχὰς ἀνιερωτέον.

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.) — 108 focus

[108] Now speaking properly, if we must avow the exact truth, it is we ourselves who are this dough; since many essences are kneaded and combined together that we may be made perfect: for the great Creator having mingled and kneaded together the cold and hot, dry and moist, opposite properties, has made out of them all one distinct combination, ourselves, from which the expression dough is applied to us. Now, of this combination in which body and soul, two most important divisions, are united, the first fruits are to be consecrated.

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