Philo Judaeus, De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini, ed. Leopold Cohn, 87

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[87] ὅταν οὖν „νέα" τὴν ἀκμὴν καὶ „πεφρυγμένα„ τὸν πεπυρωμένον καὶ ἀνίκητον λόγον καὶ „χίδρα„ τὴν τομὴν καὶ διαίρεσιν τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ „ἐρικτὰ„ τὴν τριβὴν καὶ μελέτην τῶν ἐπινοηθέντων ὁμολογῇς κατὰ θεόν, πρωτογεννημάτων οἴσεις θυσίαν, ὧν πρώτων καὶ
ἀρίστων ἐγέννησεν ἡ ψυχή. κἂν ἡμεῖς μέντοι βραδύνωμεν, αὐτὸς οὐ βραδύνει τοὺς ἐπιτηδείους πρὸς θεραπείαν λαβεῖν ἑαυτῷ· „λήψομαι„ γάρ φησιν „ὑμᾶς ἐμαυτῷ λαὸν ἐμοὶ καὶ ἔσομαι ὑμῶν θεὸς„ (Exod. 6,7) „καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔσεσθέ μοι λαός· ἐγώ εἰμι κύριος„ (Lev. 26, 12).

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.) — 87 focus

[87] When therefore you confess that the young and fresh corn, that is to say vigour, and the toasted corn, that is to say speech tried in the fire and invincible, and the corn cut up, which signifies the cutting up and division of things, and the corn ground, that is to say anxious care about and examination into what has been found out, do all proceed from God, you will then be offering a sacrifice of the first fruits of the first produce, of the first and best things which the soul has brought forth; and even if we are slow, nevertheless he does not delay to take to himself those who are fit to worship him. For "I will take," " says he, "you to be a people for ¹ myself, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: I am the Lord."

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