Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 63

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οὖν εὐχαριστίαν καὶ τιμὴν τοῦ παντοκράτορος εὔζωνοι καὶ εὐτρεπεῖς ἀεὶ γινώμεθα μέλλησιν παραιτούμενοι. καὶ γὰρ τὸ Πάσχα, τὴν ἐκ παθῶν εἰς ἄσκησιν ἀρετῆς διάβασιν, προστέτακται ποιεῖσθαι „τὰς ὀσφῦς περιεζωσμένους“ ἑτοίμως πρὸς ὑπηρεσίαν ἔχοντας, καὶ τὸν σάρκινον ὄγκον, „τὰ ὑποδήματα“ λέγω, περιειληφότας ἀκλινῶς καὶ παγίως ἑστῶσι ¹² „τοῖς ποσί“, καὶ τὴν παιδείαν „διὰ χειρὸς“ ἔχοντας „ῥάβδον“ πρὸς τὴν τῶν ἐν τῷ βίῳ πραγμάτων πάντων ἄπταιστον κατόρθωσιν, καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον „μετὰ σπουδῆς” ἐντραφῆναι (Exod. 12, 11)· διάβασις γάρ ἐστιν οὐ θνητή, ἐπεὶ τοῦ ἀγενήτου καὶ ἀφθάρτου τὸ Πάσχα εἴρηται· καὶ σφόδρα προσηκόντως· οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστι τῶν καλῶν, ὃ μὴ θεοῦ τε καὶ
θεῖον.

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.) — 63 focus

Let us then, with reference to our gratitude to and honouring of the omnipotent God, be active and ready, deprecating all sluggishness and delay; for those who are passing over from obedience to the passions to the contemplation of virtue, are enjoined to keep the passover with their loins girded up, being ready to do service, and binding up the burden of the flesh, or, as it is expressed, their shoes, "standing upright, and firmly on their feet, and having in their hands a staff," ¹ that is to say education, with the object of succeeding without any failure in all the affairs of life; and lastly, "to eat the passover in haste." For, by the passover, is signified the crossing over of the created and perishable being to God:—and very appropriately; for there is no single good thing which does not belong to God, and which is not divine.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
1 ἐστιν Pap τῆς om. Pap
2 νᾶμ’ M γλώσσης F ἐπαντλεῖν τε U, διαντλεῖται Α
3 επισχεομενον Pap, ἐπεισχεόμενον U: ἐπιχεόμενον ceteri φυλάττουσιν Pap F: φυλάττουσιν ἀρεσκείᾳ καὶ παγίωι (sic)M, φυλάττουσιν ἀρεσκείᾳ ceteri
4 υπερβλυον Pap
5 ὑπανατλεῖν G, ἐπαναπλεῖν Η corr.
6 φόρτου Pap
8 οἱ] τὰ Pap
9 πέψαν HP, ἔπεμψαν FL τὸ om. UF σταῖς] ταῖς UF, στᾶς M αὐτῶν codd.: αὑτῶν v ἐξ Pap F: ἀπ’ ceteri
10 τουτεστιν Pap ἀτίθασσον AGUF
11 κατείργασται P λόγων P πεπαίνοντες GH
12 κατοκωχῆς Pap: κατακωχῆς codd.
13 ἀλλὰ Pap M: ἀλλ’ ceteri αὐτὸν Pap UF: αὐτῶν MAGP, αὐτῶν H corr. ἐθησαυρίσαντο Pap UF: ἐθησαύρισαν ceteri
14 τελευτὴ GU
15 εὐπρεπεῖς F ἀεὶ add. Pap UF: om. ceteri
16 γινόμεθα M, γενώμεθα Α μέλησιν U τὸ] τὰ F τὴν] τοῖς PH corr.
17 διάβασιν codd.: διαβᾶσιν v
18 ἔχοντες Pap καὶ] καὶ γὰρ Pap σαρκικὸν Pap
19 λέγω Markland: λόγω codd. et Pap ἑστῶτες Pap; ἑστῶτας coni. Wendl.

2.
14 sqq. Amhros. de Cain et Abel
1 8,31 ... iustus igitur Yotum suum celeritate commendat. et patres nostri festinautes manducabant Pascha, succincti lumbos et pedes suos calceamentorum induti vinculis et tamquam corporeum onus deponentes, ut essent parati ad transitum; Pascha enim Domini transitus est a passionibus ad exercitia virtutis, et ideo Pascha Domini dicitur.

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