Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 151

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[151] ἄφθονον δὲ καὶ δωρητικὸν ἀρετὴ πρᾶγμα, ὡς, τὸ λεγόμενον, χειρὶ καὶ ποδὶ p. 255 M. καὶ πάσῃ δυνάμει μὴ
ὀκνεῖν ὠφελεῖν. ὅσα οὖν ἠπίστατο, καθάπερ εἰς δεξαμενὴν τὴν τοῦ γνωρίμου προχέασα διάνοιαν ἔρχεται πάλιν ἐπὶ τὸ φρέαρ ἀντλῆσαι, ἐπὶ τὴν ἀένναον τοῦ θεοῦ σοφίαν, ἵνα καὶ τὰ παλαιὰ παγίως ὀχυρώσηται διὰ μνήμης καὶ ἄλλων καινοτέρων ἐπιστήμαις ποτισθῇ· ἀπερίγραφος γὰρ ὁ σοφίας θεοῦ πλοῦτος καὶ νέα ἐπὶ παλαιοῖς ἐκφέρων βλαστήματα,
ὡς ἀνηβῶν τε καὶ ἐπακμάζων μηδέποτε λήγειν.

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.) — 151 focus

[151] But virtue is an ungrudging and most liberal feeling, so that it does not hesitate to assist another with hand and foot, as the proverb goes, and with all its power. Therefore, pouring all that she knew into the mind of the pupil as into a cistern, she went again to the well to draw water, that is to say, she went to the ever-flowing wisdom of God, that what had been already imparted might be firmly fixed in by memory, and that he might also be irrigated with the knowledge of other and newer things. For the wealth of the wisdom of God is illimitable, and as a tree which is continually putting forth new shoots after the old ones, so that it never ceases growing young again, and being in the flower of its strength.

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 151

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