Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 136

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[136] 41 ἡ δὲ Ῥεβέκκα κατέβη, φησίν, ἐπὶ τὴν πηγὴν πλῆσαι τὴν ὑδρίαν, καὶ ἀνέβη. πόθεν γὰρ τὴν φρονήσεως διψῶσαν
διάνοιαν εἰκός ἐστι πληροῦσθαι πλὴν ἀπὸ σοφίας θεοῦ, τῆς ἀνελλιποῦς πηγῆς, εἰς ἣν κατιοῦσα ἀναβαίνει κατά τι συγγενὲς σπουδαίου μαθητοῦ; τοὺς γὰρ ἀπ’ οἰήσεως χαύνου κατελθόντας ὁ ἀρετῆς ἐκδεξάμενος καὶ ὑπολαβὼν δι’ εὐκλείας εἰς ὕψος αἴρει λόγος. οὗ ἕνεκά μοι δοκεῖ καὶ Μωυσῇ διαλέγεσθαι· „βάδιζε, κατάβηθι, καὶ ἀνάβηθι“ (Exod. ¹² 19,24), ὡς παντὸς τοῦ τὴν ἴδιον p. 152 M. ταπεινότητα μετροῦντος ἐπικυδεστέρου παρὰ τοῖς ἀληθείας κριταῖς γινομένου.

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.) — 136 focus

"But Rebekkah," says Moses, "went down to the fountain to fill her pitcher, and came up again." For from what source is it natural for the mind that thirsts after wisdom to be filled, except from the wisdom of God, that fountain which never fails, and to which the soul that descends comes up again like a virtuous disciple? For those who descend out of a vain pride, the reason of virtue receives, and taking them up by means of fame raises them to a height. On which account it is that Moses seems to me to use the expression, "Go, descend, and come up," ¹as if every one who measures his own loveliness comes forth more gloriously in the eyes of the judges of truth. And he speaks of these matters with great caution.

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
1 αὐτὴν U
8 δ’ Cohn: τεσσάρων U (confudit δ’ et δ΄) μέν add. Mang.
9 ἡ evauiduin
10 γὰρ Σάρρᾳ couicio
18 γεννητὸν U 21 ἀποστραφῇς Mang.: ἀποστροφῆς U
22 ἐπιστρέψεις conicio, ἐπιστρέψῃ coni. Mang. πολλὰς coni. Mang. ἐπομβρήσει Tisch.: ἔτι ὀμβρήσει U 23.
24 πηγὴν πλῆσαι Mang.: γῆν ἀντλῆσαι U
24 ὑδρείαν v
26 τι] τὸ Mang. συγγενὴς conicio σπουδαίου Mang.: σπουδαῖον U
29 Μωυσῇ Tisch.: Μωυσῆς U

2.
4 sqq. Clemens Strom. IV § 163 p. 637 P potius Quaest. in Genesin IV §
99 respicit. cf. etiam Auffustini Locutionum librum I 81.

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 136

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