Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 65

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[65] ὧν ἐζήτησαν ἔλαβον. 18 πρώτη δὲ τῶν εἰσαγομένων ἀρετὴ τὸ διδάσκαλον ὡς ἔνεστι τέλειον ἀτελεῖς μιμεῖσθαι γλίχεσθαι. ὁ δὲ διδάσκαλος φθάνει καὶ τὸν χρόνον οὐδ’ ὅτε τὸ πᾶν ἐγέννα συνεργήσαντα, ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτὸς γινομένῳ τῷ κόσμῳ συνυφίστατο· ὁ γὰρ θεὸς λέγων ¹² ἅμα ἐποίει, μηδὲν μεταξὺ ἀμφοῖν τιθείς· εἰ δὲ χρὴ δόγμα κινεῖν ἀληθέστερον, ὁ λόγος ἔργον ἦν αὐτοῦ. λόγου δὲ ὀξυκινητότερον οὐδὲν καὶ παρὰ τῷ θνητῷ γένει, παραμείβεται γὰρ ἡ ῥύμη τῶν ὀνομάτων καὶ ῥημάτων τὴν ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς φθάνουσα κατάληψιν.

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.) — 65 focus

But the principal virtue of pupils is to endeavour to imitate their perfect master, as far as those who are imperfect can imitate a perfect man. But the master is more rapid than any time, which did not even co-operate with him when he was creating the universe, since it is plain that time itself was created at the same moment that the world was made. For God, while he spake the word, did at the same moment create; nor did he allow anything to come between the word and the deed; and if one may advance a doctrine which is pretty nearly true, His word is his deed. But among the race of mankind nothing is more easily moved than the word; for by its rapidity and by the volubility of its nouns and verbs, it outstrips even the comprehension which hastens to overtake them.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
1 παιδείας coni. Mang. ἔχοντες Pap τῷ om. HP πάντων πραγμάτων transp. DF ἀπταίστων Pap διόρθωσιν F
3 ἐντραγεῖν coni. Wendl. 3.
4 θύσις (sic) γὰρ ἐστιν οὐ θνητὴ ἔπι του ἀγενήτου καὶ ἀφθάρτου Pap, διάβασις γάρ ἐστιν οὐ θνητή, ἐπεὶ τοῦ ἀγενήτου καὶ ἀφθάρτου UFL2, διάβασις ἐν ἄλλω· διάβασις γάρ ἐστιν οὐ θνητὴ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀγεννήτου· καὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ θεὸν τοῦ γεννητοῦ καὶ φθαρτοῦ Α: διάβασις γὰρ ἐπὶ θεὸν τοῦ γεννητοῦ καὶ φθαρτοῦ ceteri
4 τὸ Πάσχα] τὸ πάσχειν G, τὸ om. UF
5 ἐστιν Pap
6 αὐτὸν UF καθάπερ καὶ UFL2
7 πυνθανομενου Pap: πυθομένου codd.
8 παρέδωκεν Pap ὁ θεός σου UF ἐμοῦ Pap UF: μου ceteri
10 ἁ om. Α
11 παραδιδόντες χρόνου ·πολλοῦ δέονται fort. γὰρ deleto scribendum παραδιδόντες οὑκ εὐθὺς
12 προχέοντες] προερῶντες UF1, προεκροῶντες F2 ἄγχος U
13 τῶν om. F
14 οἱ δὲ UF
15 ἅτε om. UF μαθηταὶ γεγονότες UF: γεγονότες μαθηταὶ ceteri εὐφυεῖς] εὐθεῖς P, εὐθὺς Η εὑρήσεις PF
16 τὸ] τὸν MAGP
17 ὡς ἔνεστι om. Η τέλειον om. Α ἀτελεῖς Pap UF: καὶ τελείως ceteri
18 ὃς ante οὐδ’ add. H2 συνειργάσατο H2
19 καὶ om. G αὐτὸς] ὁ χρόνος δηλονότι αὐτὸς U (Mang.) συνυφίσταται UFL2

2.
6 sqq. ibicl. §
32 Cito ergo hoc quaere, anima, ut cito etiam audias, sicut audivit et lacob: Quid est hoc quod tam cito invenisti, fili? et ilie secundum dogma respondit: Quod tradidit Dominus Deus tuus in manus meas.
19 sqq. ibid. . . . cilo dat Dcus, quia dixit et facta sunt, mandavit et creata sunt.

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