Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 127

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[127] 37 διὸ καὶ ἐν ¹² Γενέσει λέγεται· „πηγὴ δὲ ἀνέβαινεν ἐκ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐπότιζε πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς“ (Gen. 2,6). ἐπεὶ γὰρ ὅλου τοῦ σώματος μέρος ἐξαίρετον ἔνειμεν ἡ φύσις τὸ πρόσωπον αἰσθήσεσιν, ἡ ἀνιοῦς’ ἀφ’ ἡγεμονικοῦ πηγὴ σχιζομένη πολλαχῇ καθάπερ τινὰς ὑδρορρόας ἀναστείλασα μέχρι προσώπου, δι’ αὐτῶν τὰς δυνάμεις ἐφ’ ἕκαστον ἄγει τῶν
αἰσθητικῶν ὀργάνων. οὕτως μέντοι καὶ ὁ θεοῦ λόγος p. 250 M. ποτίζει τὰς ἀρετάς· ἀρχὴ γὰρ καὶ πηγὴ καλῶν πράξεων οὗτος.

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.) — 127 focus

On which account it is said in Genesis, "And a fountain went up from the earth, and watered all the face of the earth." ¹ For since nature has allotted the most excellent portion of the whole body, namely the face, to the outward senses, therefore the fountain which goes up from the superior part, being diffused over various parts, and sending up its streams like so many water-courses as high as the face, by their means conducts the faculties to each of the organs of the outward senses. In this way in truth, it is that the word of God irrigates the virtues; for that is the beginning and the fountain of all good actions.

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
1 γοῦν] γὰρ conicio διὸ] ὃ δὴ conicio
4 ψυχὴ U
5 δ’ ἡ τῶν U
6 εὐκαιρίαν U: ἀκαιρίαν v
7 πρησθέντες coni. Mang.
8 σοφίᾳ πιαινόμενοι Mang.: σοφίας πεπαινόμενοι U
9 ἱερείου U (non ἱεροῦ, ut Tisch. adnot.)
11 τὴν διάνοιαν conicio
12 αὐτῷ U (non αὐτῶν)
13 διὸ scripsi: ὃν U
16 σκεψώμεθα Cohn: σκύψωμεν U, σκέψωμεν Mang., σκέψομεν Holwerda
17 λέγουσα ex LXX addidi
18 μοι] μὴ U
21 ἐπιροῆς U ἀφεαίνεται U καθάπερ φαίνεται] σπερμαίνεται Tisch., καθάπερ φυτόν τι vel tale aliquid subesse videtur, καθάπερ ἐμφαίνεται coni. Cohn
22 τε] γὰρ V

2. 27.
28 cf. Epicharmi fragm. p. 255 Lorenz.

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 127

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