Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 134

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[134] „ἐν ᾗ“ δέ φησιν „ἡμέρᾳ ἐπάταξα πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ, ἡγίασα ἐμοὶ πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐν Ἰσραήλ“ (Num. 3, 13), οὐχ ἵνα τοῦθ’ ὑποτοπήσωμεν, ὅτι κατ’ ἐκεῖνον μόνον τὸν χρόνον, καθ’ ὃν ἐπλήγη τὴν μεγάλην ¹² πληγὴν φθορᾷ τῶν πρωτοτόκων Αἴγυπτος, οἱ Ἰσραὴλ πρωτότοκοι ἐγένοντο ἅγιοι, ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ πάλαι καὶ νῦν καὶ αὖθις καὶ ἀεὶ τοῦτο συμβαίνειν ἐπὶ ψυχῆς πέφυκεν· ὅταν τὰ τοῦ τυφλοῦ πάθους ἡγεμονικώτατα διαφθαρῇ, τηνικαῦτα τὰ τοῦ θεὸν ὀξυδερκῶς ὁρῶντος πρεσβύτερα καὶ p. 190 M. τίμια ἔκγονα γίνεται ἅγια.

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.) — 134 focus

[134] "But in the day," says God, "on which I smote the first-born in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to myself all the first-born of Israel." ¹ And he says this not to lead us to suppose that at the time when Egypt was stricken with this mighty blow by the destruction of all its first-born, the first-born of Israel all became holy, but because both in former times, and now, and hereafter, and for ever, this naturally happens in the case of the soul, that when the most dominant parts of blind passion are destroyed, then the elder and most honourable ²³ offspring of God, who sees everything with a piercing sight, becomes holy;

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
1 ἰσότιμος Pap UF: ὁμότιμος ceteri
2 ἀφ’ οὖ Wendl.: ὑφ’ οὗ Pap et codd.
3 πέφυκεν Pap, πεφύκασι MAGP εἰς εὐεργεσίαν — τοῦ μὲν (4) om. HP1 εἰς] ὡς AP2
4 την Pap οὑν om. Pap
5 ἐστιν Pap πάσας U
6 τελείαν] τελοῦσαν Α διασυνίσταται Pap UF: δ’ ἐνίσταται Α, διανίσταται ceteri
7 γνωζεται Pap τῶ θεῶ G δι’] διὰ MF σωτηριῶν AF
8 δ’ AGHP δευτέρου Pap: ἑτέρου codd. i) γεγόνασιν Pap
10 Μώσης MAGHP
11 αὐτὸν] αὐτῶ Pap UF αὐτοῦ om. Pap UF
12 διὰ τούτων] δὴ τοῦτον Α
14 νομοθετικῶς Α δυεῖν] δυοῖν PL, δύο V 1(5 ἡγίασαν M ἐμοὶ codd. et Pap: μοι v
17 ἐν add. Pap U: om. ceteri
18 μόνον add. UFL2 (Pap?): om. ceteri

2. ministerium est, si quidem lex ait de eo: Quia Deus dedit eum in manus eius. manus ergo eius instrumenti modo diviaae ultioni ministerium praebuerunt. Levites igitur minister remissionis est, percussor autem, qui tamen non ex dispositione, sed praeter voluntatem fecerit homicidium, divinae minister est ultionis.
15 sqq. ibid. §
16 . . . et ubi abominatio aboletur, sanctificatio congregatur (leff. sanctificatur congregation?) quia Dominus dixit: In ea die qua interfeci omne primogenitum Aegypti, sanctificavi mihi omne primogenitum Israel. quod non ad unum diem afflictionis Aegypti referes, sed ad omne tempus; cum enim renuntiatur improbitati, statim adsciscitur virtus; egressus enim naalitiae virtutis operatur ingressum. . . . discussa est omnis carnalium caecitas passionum, ubi aeternae vitae iumen infusum est.

Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 134

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