Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 133

ed. Paul Wendland

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[133] τίς οὐκ ἂν θαυμάσειε τὴν περὶ πάντα ἀκρίβειαν τοῦ
νομοθέτου; παρθένον εἶπε τὴν Ῥεβέκκαν, καὶ πάνυ καλὴν παρθένον, ὅτι ἀμιγὴς καὶ ἄδολος καὶ ἀμίαντος ἡ ἀρετῆς φύσις καὶ μόνη τῶν ἐν γενέσει καλή τε καὶ ἀγαθή· ἀφ’ ἧς καὶ τὸ στωικὸν ἐβλάστησε δόγμα τὸ μόνον εἶναι τὸ καλὸν ἀγαθόν.

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.) — 133 focus

[133] Here who can help wondering at the minute accuracy of the lawgiver as to every particular? He calls Rebekkah a maiden, and a very beautiful maiden, because the nature of virtue is unmixed and free from guile, and unpolluted, and the only thing in all creation which is both beautiful and good; from which arose the Stoic doctrine, that the only thing that was beautiful was the good.

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