Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 86

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[86] 26 μετὰ τὸ
„χίδρα“ οὖν ἁρμόττει ποιεῖν „ἐρικτά“, τουτέστι μετὰ τὴν διαίρεσιν ¹² ἐνδιατρίβειν καὶ ἐνσχολάζειν τοῖς ἐπινοηθεῖσι· συνεχὴς γὰρ ἄσκησις ἐπιστήμην πάγιον ἐργάζεται, ὡς ἀμαθίαν ἀμελετησία· μυρίοι γοῦν ἀθλήσεως ὄκνῳ καὶ τὴν ἐκ φύσεως ἰσχὺν ἐξέλυσαν, οὓς οὐκ ἐμιμήσαντο οἱ τροφῇ θείᾳ τὴν ψυχὴν τραφέντες τῷ λεγομένῳ μάννα· οὗτοι γὰρ ἤλουν καὶ ἔτριβον αὐτὸ ποιοῦντες ἐγκρυφίας (Num. 11, 8), τὸν οὐράνιον
ἀρετῆς λόγον ἀνατρίβειν καὶ ἐπιλεαίνειν ἕνεκα τοῦ τυπῶσαι βεβαιότερον τὴν διάνοιαν ἐγνωκότες.

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.) — 86 focus

After those that are cut up, it was very natural to make an offering of such as are ground; that is to say, it is natural after the division to dwell among and pass one’s leisure among what had been thus discovered, for continued practise produces firm and stable knowledge, just as continued indifference produces ignorance. Therefore numbers of men from fear of the labour of practise, have lost the strength with which they were endowed by nature, whom those men have not imitated who nourished their souls on prophecy, which is signified under the name of manna, "for they ground it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it." ¹ every one of them knowing well how to knead and soften the heavenly language of virtue for the sake of making the intellect firmer.

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De sacrificiis Abelis et Caini

1.
1 φανεῖναι Α δέξασθε Pap
2 καὶ διαιρέσεις F ἐν γένει UF, ἐν γενέσει Pap: ἕν ἐστιν ceteri ἢ om. Pap F κατὰ] καὶ τὰ Pap
3 καὶ ἀνδρείαν καὶ δικαιοσύνην UF: καὶ δικαιοσύνην om. Pap, καὶ δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἀνδρείαν MAGP, δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἀνδρείαν H ἀνδρίαν AGHP
4 ἑκάστην F εἰδότας Α ὑπομένωμεν] ἀπονέμωμεν coni. Mang.
5 δ’ U τήν τε Pap UF: τε om. ceteri
6 γυμνάσομεν Pap G: γυμνάσωμεν ceteri ατουπωτοις Pap ἀτύπως τῆς φαντασίας P ὑποσυγχύτως Pap MAUF: ὑπὸ συγχύσεως GHP
8 ἔρευναν Pap UF: καὶ ἐρευνᾶν ceteri ληψόμεθά τε λόγον Turn. ὃς UF, (usPap: μὴ GHP, om. MA 8.
9 ὃς οὐκ] οὐχ ὃς coni. Markland; οὐκ seclusi
9 φερόμενον Pap, φερομένους Α ειργσηται Pap, ἐργάσηται Α, ἐργάζεται UF δ’ UF
10 τὰς] τὰ F ζώων P δ’ UF
12 μελέτηι αὐτῶν καὶ ἄσκησιν transp. UF αὑτῶν Α, αὐτοῖς P
13 ἐστιν Pap τῷ om. UF γευσαμένους Pap UF: γευσαμένῳ ceteri, γεύσασθαι v
14 ἢ Pap UF: καὶ ceteri εἰς κόρον Pap UF: εἰς κόρον δὲ ceterl μέτα τὸ Pap: μετὰ τὰ codd.
15 χέδρα MA ἐρικτά Pap MA: ἐρυκτά Η, ἐρεικτά ceteri τουτέστιν Pap H

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14 sqq. Ambros. l. l. II 6,22 Superest ut de continua et iugi oratione dicamus, quod immorari nos et vacare orationi oportet. . . . frequens enim oratio quandam operatur disciplinam orandi, quia ipse usus docibiles Dei facit, indocibiles neglegentia. bona igitur exercitatio. denique corporis virtus exercitatione augetur frequenti, at inexercitata minuitur et labitur; plurimi enim exercitii dissuetudine etiam naturalem dissolvere virtutem. similiter animae fortitudo exercitationis assiduitate solidatur. . . . hunc cibum menti nostrae deferamus, qui multa attritus meditatione ac politus cor hominis sicut illud caeleste manna confirmet: quod non otiose tritum ac politum accipimus, eo quod caelestium Scripturarum alloquia diu terere ac polire debemus toto animo

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