Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 20

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[20] ἐπίγνωθι, ὦ ψυχή, καὶ γνώρισον, τίς ἐστιν ἡ μισουμένη
καὶ τίς ὁ τῆς μισουμένης υἱός, καὶ εὐθὺς αἰσθήσῃ, ὅτι ἄλλῳ μὲν οὐδενί, μόνῳ δὲ τούτῳ καθήκει τὰ πρεσβεῖα. p.265 M. δύο γὰρ ἡμῶν ἑκάστῳ συνοικοῦσι γυναῖκες ἐχθραὶ καὶ δυσμενεῖς ἀλλήλαις, τῶν ζηλοτυπίας τὸν ψυχικὸν οἶκον ἀναπιμπλᾶσαι φιλονεικιῶν· τούτων τὴν μὲν ἑτέραν ἀγαπῶμεν χειροήθη καὶ τιθασὸν καὶ φιλτάτην καὶ οἰκειοτάτην αὑτοῖς νομίζοντες,
καλεῖται δὲ ἡδονή· τὴν δὲ ἑτέραν ἐχθαίρομεν ἀτίθασον ἀνήμερον ἐξηγριωμένην πολεμιωτάτην ἡγούμενοι, ὄνομα δὲ [καὶ] ταύτης ἐστὶν ἀρετή. ¹² ἡ μὲν οὖν προσέρχεται πόρνης καὶ χαμαιτύπης τὸν τρόπον τεθρυμμένη,

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.) — 20 focus

[20] Consider, O my soul, and know who it is who is hated, and who is the son of her who is hated, and immediately you shall perceive that the chief rights and chief honours belong to no one else but to him alone; for there are two wives cohabiting with each individual of us, hostile and inimical to one another, filling the abode of the soul with the contentions which arise from jealousy. Of these we love one, which is gentle and tractable, and which we think very affectionate and akin to ourselves, and its name is pleasure; but the other we hate, looking upon it as untameable, ungentle, fierce, and very hostile to us, and the name of this one is virtue. Now what mortal is ignorant of the great mysteries of that exceedingly beautiful and greatly contended for pleasure? And who could worthily ¹² describe the multitude or the greatness of the good things which are treasured up by virtue? ³

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
1 ἐὰν Pap UF: ἐὰν δὲ ceteri ἀνθρώπω Pap UF: τῶ ἀνθρώπω ceteri μία UF: ἡ μία ceteri
2 καὶ μία Pap UF: καὶ ἡ μία ceteri αὐτῶν post καὶ μία add. UF
3 ὁ om. MAP ὁ πρωτότοκος τῆς μισουμένης transp. UF ἐν om. UF
4 κατακληροδοτεῖ Α, κατακληρονομῆ UF τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ UF: τὰ ὑπάρχοντα τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ ceteri
6 τὸν πρωτότοκον — μισουμένης om. F ἀλλὰ τὸν πρωτότοκον υἱὸν τῆς μισουμένης Pap MAG: ἀλλὰ τὸν πρωτότοκον τὼ τῆς μισουμένης U, ἀλλὰ τὸν υἱὸν τῆς μισουμένης τὸν πρωτότοκον HP
7 ἀπὸ πάντων] ἁπάντων Η ἄν om. F
8 αὐτῶ Pap UF καθῆκε Mang. πρωτοτόκεια Pap Η
υἱός om. MAGHP αἰσθήσει Pap
11 ὑμῶν Α2 συνοικοῦσιν Pap, om. Α1
12 ψυχικὸν] τῆς ψυχῆς G2
13 αναπιπλασαι Pap, ἀναπιμπλῶσαι A2B φιλονικιῶν Pap, φιλονεικῶν F
14 χειροήθει Α1 τιθασσὸν AGUF αὐτοῖς UFPi, αὐτῶ G2, αὐτὴν A2BH2P2
15 τὴν δ’ ABG2H2P2U εχθαιρορεν Pap: ἐχθρόνομον Α2Β, ἐχθραίνομεν ceteri ἀτίθασον Pap HP : ἀτίθασσον ceteri
16 καὶ seclusit Wendl. ταὐτὴ MA1G1H1P1 ἡ ἀρετή U

2. ei, quia ipse initium filiorum eius est et ipsi debentur primitiae. quam profunda latent mysteriorum secreta in litteris! recognosce, anima, partus tuos et odibilis istius mulieris quaere mysterium: intra te ea invenies, si requiras. repete cogitationes, relege sensus tuos, et cui primitiae debeantur agnosces. duae enim mulieres unicuique nostrum cobabitant inimicitiis ac discordiis dissidentes, velut quibnsdam zelotypiae contentionibus nostrae replentes animae domum. una earum nobis suavitati et amori est, blanda conciliatrix gratiae, quae vocatur voluptas: hanc nobis opinamur sociam ac domesticam; iliam alteram immitem asperam feram credimus, cui nomen virtus est.

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