Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 137

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[137] ἀλλὰ
μήποτε ὁσίως πάνυ κἀκ περισκέψεως ἀκριβοῦς αὐτὰ εἰς τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ βωμὸν οὐκ ἀνῆκεν, ὅτι τὸ ἡγεμονικὸν κατὰ ἀμερῆ χρόνων διαστήματα ¹² πολλὰς πρὸς ἑκάτερον τό τε εὖ καὶ χεῖρον τροπὰς λαμβάνον καὶ διαλλάττοντας ἀεὶ τύπους δέχεται τοτὲ μὲν καθαροῦ καὶ δοκίμου τοτὲ δὲ παρακεκομμένου καὶ κιβδήλου νομίσματος.

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.) — 137 focus

[137] But may it not be owing to an exceeding holiness and to very accurate consideration of the matter that he did not bear these things to the faithful altar of God? because that dominant part being subject to changes in either direction, either for bad or good, in an indivisible moment of time receives impressions which are continually changing, at one time impressions of what is pure and approved, and at others of an adulterated and base coinage.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
1 Ἰσραὴλ om. Pap
3 τῆς ψυχῆς G πάθη F
4 φθαρη Pap θεὸν] θεοῦ Pap (?) L
5 ἔγγονα Pap γίνονται U
6 ἀποστάντος DV
7 ὅσον] ὅσον γ’ v γ’ οὖν MGU ἐξῆλθον Pap
8 πανδεχην Pap
10 ἰσχύσαι scripsi: ισχυση Pap, ἴσχυσε codd.
11 κληρονομηθεὶς] κληθεὶς F, κλιθεὶς U (Mang.) παθὼν Α
13 ’δε Pap
14 εμφηνων Pap ὅτι] οὑν Α
15 τῶ θεῶ HP χωρητέον Α
16 δὴ τάξεσι Α προστεταγμένα HP (Pap?) ἀναφέρειν] φέρειν Pap, ἀφαιρεῖν UF
17 λωβὸν Α
18 λέξωμεν Α
19 καθαγίζεσθαι Mang., καταγιζεσθαι Pap: καθαγνίζεσθαι codd.
20 τούτω P
21 μήπω Α ὁσίως καὶ πάνυ Pap κὰν (?) Pap, κἀκ UF: καὶ ἐκ ceteri αὐτὰ add. Pap: om. codd. εἰς τὸν πιστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ βωμὸν codd., πιστὸν om. Pap
22 ἀνῆκεν Pap: ἀνήνεγκεν codd. ἀμερὲς H χρόνων M: χρόνου Η, χρόνον ceteri διαστήματα Pap: διάστημα ἁ AGPU, διάστημα MH, ἁ (om. διαστήματα) F

2. 5—7 DR fol. 148r DV p. 438 Flor. Paris. No.
4 (= Max. Ecl. c. 1) Anton. Mel.
1
Col. 793 Φίλωνος: κακίας ἔξοδος — ἐπεισέρχεται.

Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 137

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