Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 125

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[125] ὅταν οὖν ἢ ἴδω ἢ ἀκούσω τινὰ αὐτῶν τεθνεῶτα, σφόδρα κατηφῶ καὶ ἄχθομαι καὶ οὐ μᾶλλον αὐτοὺς ἢ τοὺς ζῶντας ὀλοφύρομαι· τοῖς μὲν γὰρ ἀκολουθίᾳ φύσεως τὸ ἀναγκαῖον ἀποβῆναι τέλος, βίον μὲν εὐδαίμονα εὐκλεᾶ δὲ θάνατον ἐνδεξαμένοις, τοὺς δὲ
ἐρήμους μεγάλης καὶ δυνατῆς χειρός, δι’ ἣν ἐσῴζοντο, ἀπολειφθέντας ταχὺ δὴ μάλα τῶν ἰδίων αἰσθήσεσθαι κακῶν, εἰ μὴ πάλιν ἀντὶ τῶν ¹² προτέρων ἡ φύσις ὥσπερ δένδρῳ τοὺς ἤδη πεπανθέντας καρποὺς ἀποβάλλοντι νέους ἑτέρους ἀναβλαστῆσαι παρασκευάσει πρὸς τροφὴν καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν τῶν χρῆσθαι δυναμένων.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 125 focus

[125] When, therefore, I see or hear that any one of these men is dead, I am exceedingly downcast and grieved, and I lament those who are left behind alive as much as I lament them; for to the one I see, that the necessary end has arrived in consistency with the ordinances of nature, and that they have exhibited a happy life and a glorious death. But I look upon the others as now deprived of the great and mighty hand by which they were saved, and as likely, now that they are bereft of it, soon to feel the evils which are due to them, unless, indeed, instead of the former men, who are gone, nature should be preparing to make other young men shoot up, as in the case of a tree which has already shed its ripe fruit for the nourishment and enjoyment of those who are able to make use of it.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
2 τοῦτο om. UF, τούτω Α ὥσπερ] ὅσον Α ἐμπυρεύματα UF πόσαις Α
3 μὴ κινηθέντος Α συναυξηθέντος Pap UF: αὐξηθέντος ceteri
4 τῶ βίω UF: τῷ om. ceteri ἐγώ γ’ οὖν F, ἐγὼ γοῦν I)
5 κατ’ οἰκίαν διαιτώμενον trausp. UF
6 ἡ UFD: καὶ ceteri καὶ η πόλιν Pap οἶμαι D 6.
7 ἀπόλαυσιν ἀγαθῶν transp. U, ἀπόλαυσιν ἀγαθὸν F
7 τῶν ἀπόντων Pap: τῶν ἀπὸ τῶν UF, τῶν ἁπάντων D, ἀπάντων HP, ἀπ’ αὐτῶν MAG ἀπόντων correxit Turn.) προσδοκιῶν UF
8 σχέσιν U, ἔχειν D τὸν] τὸ F ἀπερίγραπτον DR αὐτοῦ MAGHPD, αὐτὸν UF
9 τοὺς om. HP1 καὶ ante εὔχομαι om. Pap ’ εὔχομαί γε Η
10 ἐπειδὴ ’δε Pap ἔνεστιν Pap, ἔνεστι UF: ἔστι ceteri νομίζων om. Pap
11 παραμενεῖν coni. Wendl. τἀγαθά GHP, τὰ καλά Α
12 δυνηθῶσι τὰ καλά Mang. οὖν] γοῦν U, γ’ οὖν F ἢ ἴδω Pap F: ἡ om. ceteri εἴδω Α
13 κατὴφιῶ U
14 φύσεως] ψύχης (?) Pap
15 εὐδαίμονα μὲν transp. F ενδεξαμενοις Pap (coni. Mang.): ἐνδειξαμένοις codd.
16 ἀποληφθέντας Α
17 δὴ] δεῖ U

2. 4—9 DR fol. 33v DL fol. 37v (τοῦ αὐτοῦ εἰς τόν Ἄβελ) Anton. Mel. II
41 Col. Φίλωνος): ἐγὼ γοῦν — δωρουμένου.
4 sqq. Ambros. l. l. ΙΙ 3,12... quara beata civitas quae plurimos iustos habet, quam celebrabilis ore omnium!] quomodo benedicitur tota de parte et beatus atque perpetuus eius status aestimatur! quam gaudeo, cum aliquos mites ac sapientes diu vivere video . . . non enim ipsis gaudeo . . ., sed quia prosunt pluribus. similiter durn aliquis huius modi decedit, quamvis longa senectute depositus, afficior, quia destituitur grex iuvenum muro senili.

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