Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 144

ed. Paul Wendland

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[144] οὐδὲ γὰρ εἰ τὸν πλοῦτον ἐπιδείκνυσθαι βουληθείη τὸν ἑαυτοῦ, χωρήσαι ἂν ἠπειρωθείσης καὶ θαλάττης ἡ σύμπασα γῆ· εἰ μὴ νομίζομεν ὑετῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἐν κόσμῳ φορὰν κατὰ τεταγμένας καιρῶν περιόδους, ἀλλὰ μὴ συνεχῶς γίνεσθαι διὰ
σπάνιν καὶ ἔνδειαν αὐτῶν, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ἕνεκα προμηθείας τῶν χρῃζόντων, οὓς ἡ συνεχὴς τῶν ὁμοίων δωρεῶν ἀπόλαυσις βλάψειν p. 254 M. μᾶλλον ἔμελλεν ἢ ὠφελήσειν.

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.) — 144 focus

[144] nor, indeed, could even the whole world, both land and sea, contain his riches if he were ¹² inclined to display them, unless we think that the descent of the rains and of the other things that happen in the world are appointed to take place according to the pre-arranged periods of the seasons, and not all at once, because of the scarcity and rarity of the things themselves, and not from any regard to the advantage of those who are benefited by them; who would be injured rather than be benefited by a continual enjoyment of such gifts.

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