Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 177

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[177] λέγει δ’ ἑξῆς ὅτι „ἔθετο κύριος ὁ θεὸς σημεῖον τῷ Κάιν, τοῦ μὴ ἀνελεῖν αὐτὸν πάντα τὸν εὑρίσκοντα“ (Gen. 4, 15)· καὶ τί τὸ σημεῖόν ἐστιν, οὐ δεδήλωκε, καίτοι γε εἰωθὼς τὴν ἑκάστου φύσιν διὰ σημείου
δεικνύναι, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τὴν ῥάβδον μεταβαλὼν εἰς ὄφιν ¹² καὶ τὴν χεῖρα Μωυσέως εἰς χιόνος ἰδέαν καὶ τὸν ποταμὸν εἰς αἷμα.

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.) — 177 focus

[177] Moses says in the next passage that the Lord God set a mark upon Cain in order to prevent any one who found him from slaying him; but what this mark is, he has not shown, although he is in the habit of explaining the nature of everything by a sign, as he does in the affairs of Egypt, where God changed his rod into a serpent, and withered the hand of Moses till it became like snow, and turned the river into blood.

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Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat

1.
1 οὕτως codd.: οὕτω v 5.
6 ἐπακολουθούντων UF: ὑπακολουθούντων HL
7 ἀπλέτοις] ἀπλῶς ταῖς F ποικιλίαις F: ποικίλαις UHL ἀπλέτου ποικιλίας coni. Mang. ἔτι τοίνυν] τί δὲ νῦν coni. Mang.
8 ὦν] ὃν F ὁ om. F
9 post μίξεις add. ὁ HL
13 δοκῶσιν F
14 ἡ τὰ — μᾶλλον om. H καὶ addidi
15 —
17 ὑπὲρ — γλῶτταν om. U
20 λυτὰν F
25 ὄφιν] φύσιν H

2. 16—19 cf. Plut. de garrul.
8 p. 505 D Diog. La. IX 27.
19 Orig. Commtnt. in Ev. Matth. XV
3 (t. III p. 331 Lomm.) ... καὶ Φίλων δὲ ἐν πολλαῖς τῶν εἰς τὸν Μωυσέως νόμον συντάξεων αὐτοῦ εὐδοκιμῶν καὶ παρὰ συνετοῖς ἀνδράσι φησὶν ἐν βιβλίῳ ᾦ οὕτως ἐπέγραψεν ἐπὶ (leg. περὶ) τοῦ τὸ χεῖρον τῷ κρείττονι φιλεῖν ἐπιτίθεσθαι, ὅτι „ἐξευνουχιστηθηναι μὲν ἄμεινον ἡ πρὸς συνουσίας ἐκνόμους λυττᾶν“. Fhilonis opera vol. Ι 20

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