Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 48

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[48]
εἰκότως δὲ τοῦτο ἔπαθεν· ἡ γὰρ ἐξ αὑτῆς ἀνελοῦσα ψυχὴ τὸ φιλάρετον καὶ φιλόθεον δόγμα τὸν ἀρετῆς τέθνηκε βίον· ὥσθ’ ὁ Ἄβελ, τὸ παραδοξότατον, ἀνῄρηταί τε καὶ ζῇ· ἀνῄρηται μὲν ἐκ τῆς τοῦ ἄφρονος διανοίας, ζῇ δὲ τὴν ἐν θεῷ ζωὴν εὐδαίμονα. μαρτυρήσει δὲ τὸ χρησθὲν λόγιον, ἐν ᾧ „φωνῇ“ χρώμενος καὶ „βοῶν“ (Gen. 4, 10) ἃ πέπονθεν
ὑπὸ κακοῦ συνδέτου τηλαυγῶς εὑρίσκεται· πῶς γὰρ ὁ μηκέτ’ ὢν διαλέγεσθαι δυνατός;

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.) — 48 focus

[48] And very reasonably may we attribute this to him. For the soul, which destroys out of itself the virtue-loving and God-loving principle, has died as to the life of virtue, so that Abel (which appears a most paradoxical assertion) both is dead and alive. He is dead, indeed, having been slain by the foolish mind, but he lives according to the happy life which is in God. And the holy oracle which has been given will bear witness, which expressly says, that he cried out loudly, and betrayed clearly by his cries ¹ what he had suffered from the concrete evil, that is from the body. For how could one who no longer existed have conversed?

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 48

ed. Leopold Cohn

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