Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 120

ed. Paul Wendland

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[120] σκιαγραφίαις γὰρ ἐπιπολαίοις ἐξ ἑαυτῶν διαρρεούσαις ἔοικε. 35 τοῦ
δὲ Θοβὲλ ἀδελφὴν εἶναί φησι Νοεμάν (Gen. 4,22), ἧς ἑρμηνεία πιότης· ἀκολουθεῖ γὰρ τοῖς εὐπάθειαν σώματος καὶ ἃς εἶπον ὕλας μεταδιώκουσιν, ὅταν τινὸς ὧν ὀρέγονται λάχωσι, πιαίνεσθαι. τὴν δὲ τοιαύτην πιότητα οὐκ ἰσχύν, ἀλλ’ ἀσθένειαν ἔγωγε τίθεμαι· διδάσκει γὰρ ἀφίστασθαι θεοῦ τιμῆς, ἣ πρώτη καὶ ἀρίστη ψυχῆς ἐστι δύναμις.

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.) — 120 focus

Moses proceeds to say, that Tubal’s sister was Noeman, the interpretation of which name is "fatness." For it follows that those who pursue a luxurious condition of the body, and the other objects which I have mentioned, do get fat when they obtain any of the things that they desire: but such fatness ¹ as this I lay down as not strength but weakness; for it teaches a man to depart from the honour due to God, which is the first and most excellent power of the soul:

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