Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 159

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[159] σῶμα δεσμῶν φαντασιώσῃ τὸν ἀγένητον. 44 τὸν Ἀβραὰμ οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅτι „γῆν καὶ συγγένειαν καὶ πατρὸς οἶκον“, τὸ σῶμα, τὴν αἴσθησιν, τὸν λόγον, „καταλιπὼν“ (Gen. 12, 1) ἄρχεται ταῖς τοῦ ὄντος ἐντυγχάνειν
δυνάμεσιν; ὅταν γὰρ ὑπεξέλθῃ πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκίαν, λέγει ὁ νόμος ὅτι „ὤφθη ὁ θεὸς αὐτῷ“ (Gen. 12, 7), δηλῶν ὅτι ἐναργῶς φαίνεται τῷ τὰ θνητὰ ὑπεκδύντι καὶ εἰς ἀσώματον τοῦδε τοῦ σώματος ψυχὴν ἀναδραμόντι.

Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 1. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1896.)

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On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 159 focus

Do you not see in the case of Abraham that, "when he had left his country, and his kindred, and his father’s house," ¹ that is to say, the body, the outward senses, and reason, he then began to become acquainted with the powers of the living God? for when he had secretly departed from all his house, the law says that, "God appeared unto him," ² showing that he is seen clearly by him who has put off mortal things, and who has taken refuge from this body in the incorporeal soul;

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