Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 79

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[79] ἐν διανοίᾳ θεῖσα, μάταιον ἔτι διὰ λόγων ὦτα γυμνάζειν. 23 διὸ καὶ
λέγεται· „φάγεσθε παλαιὰ καὶ παλαιὰ παλαιῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ παλαιὰ ἐκ προσώπου νέων ἐξοίσετε“ (Lev. 26, 10), ὡς δέον πολιὸν μὲν μάθημα χρόνῳ μηδὲν ἀρνεῖσθαι πειρωμένους καὶ γράμμασι σοφῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐντυγχάνειν καὶ γνώμαις καὶ διηγήσεσιν ἀρχαιολογούντων παρεῖναι καὶ φιλοπευστεῖν ἀεὶ περὶ τῶν προτέρων καὶ ἀνθρώπων καὶ πραγμάτων,
τοῦ μηδὲν ἀγνοεῖν ὄντος ἡδίστου, νέας δὲ ὅταν ἀνατείλῃ βλάστας αὐτοδιδάκτου σοφίας ὁ θεὸς ἐν ψυχῇ, τὰ ἐκ διδασκαλίας εὐθὺς περιγράφειν καὶ περισύρειν ὑπονοστοῦντα καὶ ὑπορρέοντα ἐξ ἑαυτῶν· τὸν γὰρ θεοῦ ¹ φοιτητὴν ἢ γνώριμον ἢ μαθητὴν ἢ ὅ τί ποτε χρὴ θεμένους ὄνομα καλεῖν αὐτὸν ἀμήχανον ἔτι θνητῶν ὑφηγήσεως ἀνέχεσθαι.

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.) — 79 focus

On which account it is said also: "And ye shall eat old store, and old food from the old store, and you shall also bring forward the old out of the sight of the new." ¹ As it is fitting to repudiate no ancient piece of learning from considerations of time, while we endeavour to meet with the writings of wise men, and to be present as it were with the opinions and expositions of those who relate ancient matters, and to be always fond of inquiring about the former ages of men, and ancient events, since it is the pleasantest of all things to be ignorant of nothing. But when God causes new shoots of self-taught wisdom to spring up in the soul, then it behoves us immediately to circumscribe and to contract the things which we have acquired from instruction, which of their own accord do return and flow back to their source. For it is impossible that one who is a follower, or a friend, or a disciple of God, or any other name which one may think fit to call him, should tolerate mortal lessons.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
1 ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ ἀνίστασθαι Α
2 ὑπόληψιν ἐκκλίνοντας transp. UF οὗτος] οὕτως MPH1, οὕτω G
3 Μωση Pap, Μωυσῆ UF: Μωσεῖ ceteri
4 εἰσιν Pap 4.
5 εἰσι πρεσβύτεροι codd.: πρεσβύτεροί εἰσιν Mang.
5 πρεσβυτέρων HP1, πρεσβύτεροι om. L ὡς — πρεσβυτέρων (6) om. P ὡς ἄν Pap UF: ἄν om. ceteri ἀποδεχόμενοι coni. Mang.
7 εἰωθότες P (coni. Mang.) ὠφελεῖ ΑΗ μὲν om. GP
8 τελείας] τημελείας G καὶ πρὸς Α πολιτείας HP παλαιὰς Pap
10 τε om. F αὑτοὺς (Pap) U: ἑαυτοὺς ceteri
11 προειδομένους U, προειδομένοις ceteri (Pap) μηδ’ AUF
12 αἰφνίδιον om. GHP1L1 επιλαμψη τὸ Pap: ἐπιλάμψῃ (om. τὸ) UF, ἐπιλάμψαιτο ceteri, ἐπιλάμψηται V ἡ δὲ Pap MAGP: ἥδε F, εἰ ἑ U, ἣ δὴ H
13 τῆς ψυχῆς AF ἐπιστήμης θεατὰς transp. Α ἐπιστήμας F
14 ἐργάσηται Pap F: ἐργάσεται U, ἐργάζεται ceteri ὠκυδρονωτάτην Α αἰσθήσεως L, αἴσθησιν UF
15 ἔτι Pap MUFL2: ἐπὶ ceteri, ἐστι v διαλόγων G, δὲ λόγων H
16 παλαιὰ ἐκ παλαιῶν UF παλαιὰς ἐκ MA
17 νέω Α ἐξοίσεται Α πολιὸν codd. et Pap: παλαιὸν Mang.
18 γράμμασι] πράγμασιν Pap
20 πρότερον Pap
21 ὄντως G δ’ UH αντειλη Pap
22 ὁ om. Pap ἐκ ψυχῆς UF
23 ὑπονοσοῦντα MAP ὑπορέοντα U, υπερεοντα Pap αὐτῶν U

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