Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 59

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[59] 15 καὶ γὰρ Ἀβραὰμ μετὰ σπουδῆς καὶ τάχους καὶ προθυμίας πάσης ἐλθὼν παρακελεύεται τῇ ἀρετῇ Σάρρᾳ σπεῦσαι καὶ φυρᾶσαι τρία μέτρα σεμιδάλεως καὶ ποιῆσαι ἐγκρυφίας (Gen. 18, 6), ἡνίκα ὁ θεὸς δορυφορούμενος ὑπὸ δυεῖν τῶν ¹² ἀνωτάτω δυνάμεων ἀρχῆς τε αὖ καὶ ἀγαθότητος εἷς ὢν ὁ μέσος τριττὰς φαντασίας ἐνειργάζετο τῇ ὁρατικῇ ψυχῇ, ὧν ἑκάστη μεμέτρηται μὲν οὐδαμῶς — ἀπερίγραφος γὰρ ὁ θεός, ἀπερίγραφοι δὲ καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις αὐτοῦ —, μεμέτρηκε δὲ τὰ ὅλα· ἡ μὲν οὖν ἀγαθότης αὐτοῦ μέτρον ἀγαθῶν ἐστιν, ἡ δὲ ἐξουσία μέτρον ὑπηκόων, ὁ δὲ ἡγεμὼν αὐτὸς
ἁπάντων καὶ σωμάτων καὶ ἀσωμάτων, δι’ ὃν καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις κανόνων καὶ παραπηγμάτων λαβοῦσαι λόγον τὰ μεθ’ αὑτὰς ἐσταθμήσαντο.

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.) — 59 focus

For Abraham also, having come with all haste and speech and eagerness, exhorts virtue, that is to say, Sarah, "to hasten and knead three measures of fine meal, and to make cakes upon the hearth." ¹ When God, being attended by two of the heavenly powers as guards, to wit, by authority and goodness, he himself, the one God being between them, presented an appearance of the figures to the visual soul; each of which figures was not measured in any respect; for God cannot be circumscribed, nor are his powers capable of being defined by lines, but he himself measures everything. His goodness therefore is the measure of all good things, and his authority is the measure of things in subjection, and the governor of the universe himself, is the measure of all things to the corporeal and incorporeal. On which account, his powers also having been looked upon in the light of rules and models, have weighed and measured other things with reference to them.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

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1 τοῦ θεοῦ σου om. UF, σου om. MAG σοι om. G δύναμιν om. F
2 δ’ AUF αξιοχρεωι Pap, ἀξιόχρεω F κτήσεων HPL1 2.
3 καὶ ἀπολαύσεως om. UF
3 μεταδιδαχθῆ τῶ U
4 διὰ om. GHP1 τὰ ὁσιότητα Pap εἰσπορεύη UF (Pap?): εἰσέρχῃ εἰς ceteri
6 κακίαις Pap UF: κακίας ceteri τοῦ θεοῦ HP ἔπειθ’ UF: ἔπειτ’ Pap, ἔπειτα ceteri στήσῃς H
7 διαθήκην] δικαιοσύνην G ὤμοσεν Pap ὑμῶν Η corr. δ’ Pap UF: δέ ceteri
8 ἐστιν Pap συμβολικῶς θεοῦ traasp. Α δ’ AUF
9 ὥστε UF ἀγεννήτου MAGU
10 δὲ] δ’ AUF, καὶ Pap αἱ κατ’ ἀρετὴν πράξεις Pap UF: ἡ κατ’ αὐτὴν πρᾶξις ceteri
11 γεννητικὴν Mang.: γενικὴν Pap et codd.
12 κακίαν] κακῶν coni. Markland (melius τῶν κακιῶν) ἀνέλωμεν] ἑλόμενοι MAH1P1, ἀνελόμενοι P2 ὑστεροῦμεν UH1
13 ἐπιτροχάζοντες UF
15 ἑτοίμως UF ποιεῖν ἑαυτούς Pap U, ποιεῖν ἑαυτοῖς F: ἑαυτοὺς ante ἑτοίμους transp. ceteri
16 παρακελεύει Pap
18 ὁ θεὸς Pap UFL2: ὁ om. ceteri δυοῖν AP

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2 sqq. ibid. §
28 Ille quoque qui se iustificat, ne infletur cordis sui tumore, et ipse accepit salubre mandatum, in huiusmodi sententiam resultante oraculo: . . . non propter iustitiam tuam, non propter bonitatem tuam nec propter aequitatem cordis tui intras possidere terram istam, sed propter iniquitatem gentium disperdet eos Dominus a conspectu tuo et restituet testamentum tuum quod iuravit patribus vestris. testamentum perfecta Dei gratia est: nihil enim imperfectum dat Deus; perfecta autera virtus est et opera virtutis.

Philo Judaeus De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini 59

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