Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 101

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[101] Μωυσῆς δὲ οὔτ’ εἰς δεξιὰ οὔτ’ εἰς ἀριστερὰ οὐδ’ ὅλως εἰς μέρη τοῦ ¹² γηίνου Ἐδὼμ ἀποκλίνειν οἴεται δεῖν, τῇ δὲ μέσῃ ὁδῷ παρέρχεσθαι, ἣν κυριώτατα καλεῖ βασιλικήν (Num. 20,17). ἐπειδὴ γὰρ πρῶτος καὶ μόνος τῶν ὅλων βασιλεὺς ὁ θεός ἐστι, καὶ ἡ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἄγουσα ὁδὸς ἅτε βασιλέως οὖσα εἰκότως ὠνόμασται βασιλική. ταύτην δ’ ἡγοῦ φιλοσοφίαν, οὐχ ἣν μέτεισιν ὁ νῦν ἀνθρώπων σοφιστικὸς ὅμιλος — λόγων
γὰρ οὗτοι τέχνας μελετήσαντες κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας τὴν πανουργίαν σοφίαν ἐκάλεσαν ἔργῳ μοχθηρῷ θεῖον ἐπιφημίσαντες ὄνομα —, ἀλλ’ ἣν ὁ ἀρχαῖος ἀσκητῶν θίασος διήθλει, τὰς τιθασοὺς τῆς ἡδονῆς γοητείας ἀποστρεφόμενος, ἀστείως καὶ αὐστηρῶς χρώμενος τῇ τοῦ καλοῦ μελέτῃ.

De Posteritate Caini. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Posteritate Caini (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Posterity of Cain First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 101 focus

[101] But Moses does not think it right to incline either to the right or to the left, or in short to any part of the earthly Edom; but rather to proceed along the middle way, which he with great propriety calls the royal road, ¹ for since God is the first and only God of the universe, so also the road to him, as being the king’s road, is very properly denominated royal; and this royal road you must consider to be philosophy, not that philosophy which the existing sophistical crowd of men pursues (for they, studying the art of words in opposition to truth, have called crafty wickedness, wisdom, assigning a divine name to wicked action), but that which the ancient company of those men who practised virtue studied, rejecting the persuasive juggleries of pleasure, and adopting a virtuous and austere study of the honourable—

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
4 ἐνίων] ὧν D R D P
7 τέξαντι Mang.: τάξαντι U
8 ἀποχρόντως U
12 ποιμένων Mang.: ποιμνίων U
15 ἀπληστίας U (non ἀπληστίαν)
16 ὁ addidi
17 ἀψύχων U καὶ add. Tisch.
18 ὑπὸ Mang.: ὑπὲρ U
21 φησι Mang.: φασι U Ἰουβάλ scvipsi: Ἰωβάλ U
25 τινὰ ταλαντεύειν conicio ἐπαμφοτερίζειν Tisch.: ἐπαμφοτερίζει U ἀντιρρέποντα conicio, ἀντιρρέπον τι Cohn
27 σταθερὸν conicio
28 οὐδὲ R

2.
3 —
5 D K fol. 129r Φίλωνος ἐκ τῶν ἠ’ καὶ θ΄ τῆς νόμων ἱερῶν ἀλληγορίας D P fol. 116 Κλήμεντος στρωματέων α΄ D R fol. 136v Κλήμεωτος D v p. 435 (Φίλωνος): παιδείας ἡ ῥάβδος· ἄνευ — ἀμήχανον
28 ᾦ 22,12.
13 R fol. 91r: Μωυσῆς δὲ οὔτ εἰς δεξιὰ — δεξιὰ οὐδὲ ἀριστερά.

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 101

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