Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 121

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[121] μάρτυς δ’ ὁ νόμος
ἐν ᾠδῇ μείζονι λέγων οὕτως· „ἐλιπάνθη, ἐπαχύνθη, ἐπλατύνθη, καὶ ἐγκατέλιπε θεὸν τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτόν, καὶ ἐπελάθετο θεοῦ σωτῆρος αὐτοῦ“ (Deut. 32,15). ὄντως γὰρ οὐκέτι μέμνηνται τοῦ αἰωνίου, οἷς ¹ πρὸς καιρὸν ὁ βίος ἤνθησε· νομίζουσι γοῦν τὸν καιρὸν θεόν.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 121 focus

[121] and the law is a witness to this which in the great hymn speaks thus—"He was fat, he was rich, he was exceeding broad, and he forsook God who had made him, and he forgot God his Saviour." ¹ For in truth those men whose lives have been exceedingly fortunate and are so at the time, do not remember the eternal God, but they think time their god;

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De Posteritate Caini

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3 σκοπῶν Mang.: σκοποῦ U
5 κτίσεως U τῶν ὅσα
7 κατέστη coni. Mang.
9 τοῖς U (nou τῆς)
10 τὰς Tisch.: τὰ U
11 προσελθὼν coni. Maug. ἐμβαθύνας coni. Mang.
12 σπλάγχνοις U, ut vid. (non σπλάγχνα) 13.
14 ἄλλου, περὶ δὲ Mang.: ἄλλα· περὶ δὲ U, ἀλλ’ ἢ περί γε Tisch. IG ἀλλὰ νοημάτων scripsi: ἀλλ’ ὀνομάτων U φιλοσόφων U
19 οὐδὲ U διῶνος U
20 διαρεούλαις U
22 καὶ τὰς ἐκτὸς ὕλας conicio
23 τινὸς U: τι Tisch. λάχωσι scripsi: λάβωσι U ποιότητα U
25 ψυχῆς Mang.: ψυχή U (non ψυχῆς, ut Tisch. adnot.)
26 ὦδὴ U
27 ἐπελάθετο Mang.: ἐπελάθου U
28 μέμνηνται Tisch.: μέμνηται U

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 121

ed. Paul Wendland

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