Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 130

ed. Paul Wendland

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[130] οἷς τὰς φιλοθέους τρέφει καὶ συναύξει ψυχάς. 38 ποῖαι δ’ αὗται, κατ’ ὀλίγον ἐπάγων ἐκδιδάσκει, ποιούμενος ἀπὸ τῶν φύσει τὴν ὑφήγησιν τεχνῶν. εἰσάγει γὰρ τὴν Ἄγαρ πληροῦσαν ἀσκὸν ὕδατος καὶ τὸ παιδίον ποτίζουσαν—ἔστι δ’ ἡ Ἄγαρ θεραπαινὶς Σάρρας, τῆς τελείας ἀρετῆς [καὶ] μέση παιδεία—φυσικώτατα· ἐπειδὰν οὖν ἄχρι τοῦ βάθους
ἐλθοῦσα τῆς ἐπιστήμης, ἣν ὀνομάζει φρέαρ, ἀρύσηται ὥσπερ εἰς ἄγγος τὴν ψυχὴν τά τε δόγματα καὶ θεωρήματα, ἃ μέτεισιν, οἷς τέθραπται, τούτοις τρέφειν τὸ παιδίον ἀξιοῖ.

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.) — 130 focus

And of what kind they are, he proceeds to ¹²³ show in a few words, deriving his explanation from the natural things of art; for he introduces Agar as filling a leathern bag with water, and giving her child drink. ⁴ Now Agar is the handmaid of Sarah, the new dispensation of perfect virtue; and she is correctly represented so. Since, therefore, having come to the depth of knowledge, which Moses here calls a well, she draws up (filling the soul as if it were a vessel) the doctrines and speculations which she is in pursuit of, wishing to feed her child on the things on which she herself is fed.

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