Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 47

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[47] τὰς μὲν οὖν ἀλόγους αὐτοῦ φοράς, λέγω δὲ τὰς παρὰ τὸν αἱροῦντα λόγον ¹² δυνάμεις, οἱ υἱοὶ Λάβαν „τριῶν ἡμερῶν ἀποστάντες ὁδὸν” (ibid.) τημελοῦσι, συμβολικῶς ἅπαντα χωρισθέντες τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ σπουδαίου· τριμερὴς γὰρ ὁ χρόνος, ἐκ παρεληλυθότος καὶ ἐνεστῶτος καὶ μέλλοντος συνεστώς· τὰς δὲ καθ’ ἑτέραν ἐκδοχὴν ἀλόγους, οὐχ αἳ παρὰ τὸν
ὀρθὸν λόγον εἰσὶν ἀλλ’ ὅσαι μὴ λογικαί, ὧν καὶ τὰ ἄλογα ζῷα κοινωνεῖ, ὁ ἀσκητὴς ἐπιμελείας ἀξιώσει, τὰ σφάλματα αὐταῖς οὐκ ἀπὸ κακίας πανούργου μᾶλλον ἢ ἀπὸ ἀμαθίας ἀναγώγου προσγεγενῆσθαι νομίζων.

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.) — 47 focus

[47] Now, the irrational impulses of the mind, I mean those faculties which are developed in a misuse of that reason which should direct the choice, the sons of Laban, "when they had departed three days’ journey," ¹ paid great regard to; being thus under a symbol cut off from virtue for the whole period of their life; for time is capable of being divided into three parts, consisting of the ²³⁴ past, and the present, and the future. But these animals which are irrational in the second sense, and which are destitute not only of right reason but of all reason whatever, under which class the brute beasts are reckoned, the practiser of contemplation will think worthy of all his care, considering that their errors have proceeded, not so much from deliberate wickedness as from ignorance, which was devoid of a guide.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

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1 μέχρι] τοῖς μέχρι Η2, μέχρι καὶ Α
2 Χετοῦρα HP κατάρχουσιν Pap UF: μετέχουσιν ceteri Ἄγαρ om. UF Χετοῦρα HP
3 σοφίαν Pap UF
5 τῇ om. Pap UF ψύχην Pap τροφῆς UF δ’ A ὦ οὗτος UF δεῖται] δεῖ UF, ’δε Pap
6 ὑπηρέτην U, ὑπηρέτει Pap
7 προγευτριδα Pap, προγαστρίδα Α ἡ om. Pap UF
8 δ’ AUF ἀεὶ] ’δει Pap, αἰεὶ U
10 ἁρμόττεται U ἀρετήν UF
11 κατανοήσας τότε· καὶ MAGHP
13 πλημελῶς GP
14 καθάπερ] καὶ περὶ U, ὡσπερεὶ F τιν’ Α ἀνεπιτρόπατον Α, ανεπιτροπον Pap
15 οἱ] οἷα MAGPH1 παραπόλλβνται Pap UP, προσαπόλλωνται L
17 ποιμαίνων MAHPL1
18 σχήμασιν GHP καὶ συνόλως om. GHP ἐκκειμένου codd. et Pap, corr. Turn.
19 ὑποληφθέντα Α τοῦτο ἐστιν Pap πέφυκεν Pap
20 ὡς ἄλογον τὸν ἄφρονα Pap UFL2: ὃν ἄφρονα ceteri φασιν Pap

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9 sqq. ibid. §
24 . . . Haec cura audit mens, avertit se a voluptate virtutique adiungit, veri decoris admirans gratiam, purum affectum, simplicem sententiam, mediocrem vestem. . . . itaque talibus mota elegit studia virtutis, quibus lacob vir pienus exercitationis mentem intendit suam.

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