Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 138

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[138] τὴν δεδεγμένην οὖν χώραν ἄμφω τὰ μαχόμενα καλόν τε καὶ αἰσχρὸν καὶ πρὸς ἑκάτερον ᾠκειωμένην
καὶ τὴν ἴσην τιμὴν ἀμφοτέροις ἀπονέμουσαν οὐχ ἧττον ἄναγνον ἢ εὐαγῆ κρίνας ὁ νομοθέτης ἀπὸ τοῦ θείου βωμοῦ κατεβίβασε· τὸ γὰρ αἰσχρὸν βέβηλον, τὸ δὲ βέβηλον πάντως ἀνίερον.

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.) — 138 focus

[138] Therefore the lawgiver judging a place which was capable of receiving both these opposite qualities, namely, what is honourable, and what is disgraceful, and which was adapted to each, and distributed equal honour to both, to be quite as much impure as holy, removed it from the altar of God. For what is disgraceful is profane, and what is profane is by all means unholy;

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