Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 59

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[59] ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸν σοφὸν ὁπότε p. 203 M. ἀνερωτᾷ „ποῦ ἐστί σοι ἡ ἀρετή“; (Gen. 18, 9) — τὸν Ἀβραὰμ λέγω περὶ Σάρρας —, οὐκ ἀγνοῶν ἐρωτᾷ, ἀλλὰ δεῖν οἰόμενος αὐτὸν ἀποκρίνεσθαι
ἕνεκα τοῦ τὸν ἔπαινον τὸν ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοῦ λέγοντος παραστῆσαι· φησὶ ¹ γοῦν ὅτι εἶπεν· „ἰδοὺ ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ“ τουτέστι τῇ ψυχῇ. τί οὖν τὸ ἐκ τῆς ἀποκρίσεως ἐπαινετόν; ἰδοὺ τὴν ἀρετήν, φησίν, ἔχω παρ’ ἐμαυτῷ καθάπερ τι κειμήλιον, καὶ διὰ τοῦτ’ εὐθὺς εὐδαιμονῶ.

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.) — 59 focus

[59] Since, when he asks the wise man, Where is virtue? ¹ that is to say, when he asks Abraham about Sarah, he asks, not because he is ignorant, but because he thinks that he ought to answer for the sake of eliciting praise from the answer of him who speaks. Accordingly, Moses tells us that Abraham answered, "Behold, she is in the tent;" that is to say, in the soul. What then is there in this answer that contains praise? Behold, says he, I keep virtue in my house as a treasure carefully stored up, and on account of this I am immediately happy.

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Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat

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2 γὰρ UF: μὲν H, μὲν γὰρ L
5 τοιαύτην UF: τοιαύτην εἶναι HL
6 κελευόμενον] κολακευόμενον U
7 ὥστε HL: ὡς UF
10 δεσποτικῶν UF: δεσποτικῆς HL αὐτοὺς UF
11 προθυμούμενοι coni. Mang.
14 ἐρευνήσωμεν IIL: ἐρευνήσομεν UF
15 ἣν] ὃν HL
19 θεῷ om. HL καὶ] ἢ F, oni. H
τὰ τοιαῦτα F2
22 ἐπὶ scripsi (idem coni. Wendl.): ὑπὸ codd.
23 οὕτω HL πύσμα U: πύσματα HL1, πεῦσμα FL2
25 ψυχῆς U
26 ἐλέγχηται UF: ἐλέγχει τὰ HL, ἐλέγχη τὰ v
27 συναγωνισθῆ Η
30 τοῦ λέγοντος ἀποκρίσεως coni. Markland παραστῆσαι UF: φησι παραστῆσαι HL

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