Philo Judaeus, Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat, ed. Leopold Cohn, 61

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[61] ᾐτήσατο. 18 τούτῳ μὲν οὖν ἡ ἀπόκρισις ἔπαινον ἤνεγκεν ὁμολογοῦντι μηδὲ τὴν ἀρετὴν ἄνευ θείας ἐπιφροσύνης ἱκανὴν ἐξ ἑαυτῆς ὠφελεῖν
εἶναι, τῷ δὲ Κάιν ἀκολούθως ψόγον φάσκοντι μὴ εἰδέναι, ποῦ ὁ δολοφονηθείς ἐστι παρ’ αὐτοῦ· δόξει γὰρ τὸν ἀκούοντα ἀπατήσειν ὡς οὐ πάντα διορῶντα καὶ τὴν ἀπάτην ᾗ μέλλει χρῆσθαι προκατειληφότα· ἔκθεσμος δὲ καὶ ἔκφυλος πᾶς ὁ τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ ὀφθαλμὸν οἰόμενός τι παρορᾶν.

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.) — 61 focus

To him therefore the answer brought praise, as he confessed that virtue without the divine favour was not sufficient of itself to help any one; and, in consequence, it ¹² also brings blame to Cain, who says that he does not know where he is who has been treacherously slain by him. For he appears by this answer to be wishing to deceive his hearer, as one who does not see everything, and who has no previous suspicion of the deceit which he is about to use. But every one is wicked and worthy of proscription who thinks that the eye of God can ever fail to see anything.

Philo Judaeus Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiari Soleat 61

ed. Leopold Cohn

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