Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 170

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[170] 49 Γεννήσας τοίνυν ὁ νοῦς ἀρχὴν σπουδαίας διαθέσεως καὶ ἀρετῆς τινα πρῶτον τρόπον τὸν Σήθ, τὸν ποτισμόν, ἐπινεανιεύεται καλὴν καὶ
ὁσίαν νεανιείαν. φησὶ γάρ· „ἐξανέστησέ μοι ὁ θεὸς σπέρμα ἕτερον ¹ ἀντὶ Ἄβελ, ὃν ἀπέκτεινε Κάιν“ (Gen. 4,25). ἐξητασμένως γὰρ καὶ περιττῶς εἴρηται τὸ μηδὲν τῶν θείων σπερμάτων χαμαὶ πίπτειν, ἅπαντα δὲ εἰς τὸ ἄνω χωρεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν περιγείων ἐξανιστάμενα.

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.) — 170 focus

Therefore the mind having generated the foundation of good [...] ¹ and the primary principle of virtue, namely Seth, or irrigation, boasts with an honourable and holy boast; for she says, "God has raised up to me another seed, instead of Abel whom Cain slew," ² for it has been said with great exactness and neatness, that no single divine seed ever falls to the ground, but that they all rise up from the things of earth, and leave them, and are borne upwards to heaven;

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De Posteritate Caini

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3 χειρόκμητον οὐδὲν couicio
6 ἐκτεθηλυμμένης scripsi: ἐκτεθηλυμένης U
7 ὤτων, ἀλλὰ μόνοις τοῖς conicio
11 ἐν ἀργία U ἀντὶ seclusit Cohn
14 ἀναφερομένη coni. Mang.
18 τε Mang.: τι U
19 τρέπεσθαι] φέρεσθαι coni. Mang. περιουσίας U ὡσγύγιός. U, ὡς διωλύγιός coni. Mang.
24 γε scripsi: δὲ U
25 εὐθυωρίαν Mang.: εὐθὺ θεωρίαν U
26 καταληπτός addidi
27 οὐσίαν Mang.: ἰδέαν U αὐτῷ scripsi: αὐτοῖς U
29 πρῶτον τρόπον] πρωτόγονον conicio
30 ἐξανέστησε ex LXX Mang.: ἐξανέστησας U

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 170

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