Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 122

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[122] διὸ καὶ Μωυσῆς μαρτυρεῖ προτρέπων πολεμεῖν ταῖς ἐναντίαις δόξαις· λέγει γάρ· „ἀφέστηκεν ὁ καιρὸς ἀπ’ αὐτῶν, ὁ δὲ κύριος ἐν ἡμῖν“ (Num. 14,9)· ¹ ὥσθ’ | οἷς μὲν ὁ ψυχῆς βίος τετίμηται, λόγος θεῖος ἐνοικεῖ καὶ
ἐμπεριπατεῖ, οἷς δ’ ὁ τῶν ἡδονῶν, ἐφήμερον καὶ κατεψευσμένην ἔχουσιν εὐκαιρίαν. οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ὑπὸ διαρρεούσης πιότητός τε καὶ τέρψεως ἐπὶ πλέον οἰδήσαντες καὶ περιταθέντες ἐξερράγησαν· οἱ δὲ τῇ τρεφούσῃ τὰς φιλαρέτους ψυχὰς σοφίᾳ πιαινόμενοι βέβαιον καὶ ἀκράδαντον ἴσχουσι δύναμιν, ἧς ὑπόδειγμα τὸ ὁλοκαυτούμενον ἀπὸ παντὸς ἱερείου στέαρ.

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.) — 122 focus

[122] on which account Moses bears witness, exhorting us to war against the contrary opinions, for he says, "The time has departed from them, and the Lord is among us." ¹ So that those men by whom the life of the soul is honoured, have divine reason dwelling among them, and walking with them; but those who pursue a life of pleasure have only a brief and fictitious want of opportunities: these men, therefore, having swollen extravagantly, and become enormously distended by their profuse fatness and luxury, have burst asunder. But the others, being made fat by that wisdom which nourishes the souls that love virtue, have a firm and unshaken power, a specimen of which is the fat which is sacrificed as a whole burnt-offering from every victim:

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Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 122

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