Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 166

ed. Paul Wendland

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[166] ὁ γοῦν μόσχος οὐκ ἐξ ἅπαντος τοῦ γυναικείου κόσμου κατασκευάζεται, ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῶν ἐνωτίων p. 258 M. αὐτὸ μόνον (Exod. 32,2), διδάσκοντος ἡμᾶς τοῦ νομοθέτου ὅτι χειρόκμητος οὐδείς ἐστιν ὄψει καὶ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν θεός, ἀλλ’ ἀκοῇ καὶ τῷ νομίζεσθαι, καὶ
ἀκοῇ μέντοι γυναικός, οὐκ ἀνδρός· ἐκνενευρισμένης γὰρ ἔργον καὶ ἐκτεθηλυμμένης τῷ ὄντι ψυχῆς τοὺς τοιούτους ὕθλους παραδέχεσθαι.

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.) — 166 focus

[166] for the calf was not made of every description of female ornament, but only of the earrings of the women. The lawgiver showing us by this that nothing wrought with hands is a visible and true God, but only so by report, and as far as he is thought so, and that, too, the report of a woman and not of a man; for it is the conduct of a soul utterly enervated and rendered completely effeminate to receive such nonsense.

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