Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 41

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[41] τὸ μακάριον ἐν τοῖς οὖσι μόνον ὁ θεὸς εὐδαιμονίζηται. 9 δοκεῖ γάρ μοι πόνος τὴν αὐτὴν προσφέρεσθαι δύναμιν τροφῇ· καθάπερ γοῦν αὕτη τὸ ζῆν ἐξήρτηκεν ἑαυτῆς συναρτήσασα καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ ζῆν ἅπαντα ἔργα τε καὶ πάθη, οὕτως καὶ πόνος ἐκκεκρέμακεν ἑαυτοῦ τὰ ἀγαθά. ὥσπερ οὖν τοῦ ζῆν τοῖς γλιχομένοις τροφῆς οὐκ ἀμελητέον, οὕτως τοῖς
¹² τῶν ἀγαθῶν κτήσεως ἐφιεμένοις πόνου προνοητέον· ὃ γὰρ πρὸς τὸ ζῆν τροφή, τοῦτο πρὸς τὸ καλὸν πόνος· ἑνὸς οὖν ὄντος αὐτοῦ μηδέποτε ὀλιγωρήσῃς, ἵνα τὰ πάντα ἀγαθὰ ἀθρόα καρπώσῃ.

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.) — 41 focus

For labour appears to me to have nearly the same properties as food. As therefore this latter makes life to depend upon itself, having combined all the actions and all the passions in living, so also has labour caused all good things to depend upon itself. For as those persons who are desirous to live must not neglect food, so too they who are anxious to attain to good things must pay due attention to labour, for what food is to life that labour is to virtue. Do not you then ever slight that, though it is but a single thing, that by its means you may enjoy the collective blessings of all good things.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
1 αἰεὶ UF τὸ] τον Pap 2.
3 πολλάκις ἀντικαταλλάττεσθαι transp. U
3 VXeio codd. et Pap
4 ψυχῆς] ψυχικὰς Pap, τῆς ψυχῆς v
5 ἵλεω codd. ὑγίειαν Pap F: ὑγείαν ceteri
6 αὐτῆς UF, αὐτῶ HP δυνάμεις om. Pap UF καὶ δῆτα Pap UF: αἱ δῆτα MAPH1, ἅς δῆτα GH2, ὡς δῆτα coni. Wendl. μετὰ Pap U
7 αὑτοῖς Η corr.
8 συνεκράθησαν HL1 πάντ’ Pap AUF: πάντα ceteri ὅρα D τἀγαθὰ U
9 ῥίζης μιᾶς Pap UFD: μιᾶς ῥίζης ceteri
10 ἀθρόων Pap, ἀθρόον om. D, ἀγαθῶν ἀθρόον transp. U μεταθέμενος D
11 τε καὶ κόσμου om. Pap UF
12 ἐάν MHP θέλῃ Pap, ἐθέλοι Α τἀγαθὰ U ἐπεὶ καὶ] καὶ ἔπι Pap
13 νυνὶ] νυνὶ εἰ Pap εἰς ἀεὶ M, εἰ ἀεὶ F
14 λέγει Α γὰρ scripsi : δὲ codd. et Pap, μὲν D, om. F ἁρμονιώτατον Pap F δ’ UF
15 οὐδὲν U ἀγαθοῦ Pap UFD: ἀγαθῶν ceteri καὶ Wendl.: κἄν codd.
16 μόνον Pap UF: μόνος ceteri εὐδαιμονίζεται G
17 τροφῆς UF γοῦν scripsi : οὑν codd.
18 αὐτὴ U, αὐτὴ F
19 τε καὶ UF: τε om. ceteri
20 του ζῆν τοῖς γλιχομένοις Pap: τοῖς γλιχομένοις τοῦ ζῆν codd.

2.
8 —
10 DR fol. 274r Φίλωνος:) πάντα — μεταθέμενος.
14 —
15 ibid. θεῷ μὲν — δεδώρηται.
14 —
15 Anton. Mel. II
45 Col. 1124 (Φίλωνος:) θνητῷ γὰρ οὐδενὶ κτῆσιν ἀγαθοῦ δίχα πόνων ἡ φύσις δεδώρηται.

Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 41

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