Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 175

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[175] τοῦ δὲ ἀνωσμένου καὶ κλιθέντος ὑπὸ ψυχῆς ἀσθενείας Λὼτ αἱ δύο θυγατέρες, βουλὴ καὶ συγκατάθεσις, ἐκ τοῦ νοῦ τοῦ πατρὸς
αὑτῶν ἐθέλουσι παιδοποιεῖσθαι (Gen. 19,32), μαχόμεναι τῷ λέγοντι· „ἐξανέστησέ μοι ὁ θεός“. ὃ γὰρ ἐκείνῳ τὸ ὄν, τοῦθ’ αὑταῖς φασι τὸν ¹ νοῦν περιποιεῖσθαι δύνασθαι, μεθυούσης καὶ παραφόρου ψυχῆς δόγμα εἰσηγούμεναι· νήφοντος μὲν γὰρ ἔργον λογισμοῦ καὶ σώφρονος τὸν θεὸν ὁμολογεῖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦ παντός, πίπτοντος δ’ ὑπὸ μέθης καὶ παροινίας ἑαυτὸν ἑκάστου τῶν ἀνθρωπείων πραγμάτων εἶναι
δημιουργόν.

De Posteritate Caini. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 175 focus

[175] and the two daughters of Lot, the man who was subdued and overthrown by the weakness of the soul, namely, intention and agreement, desire to become pregnant by the mind, that is to say, by their father, acting in opposition to him who said, "God has raised up for me ..." ¹ For that which the living God did for him, this they affirm that the mind is able to do for them, introducing the doctrine of an intoxicated and frenzied soul. It is indeed the act of sober reason, both to confess that God is the Creator and the Father of the universe; and the conduct of one utterly fallen in intoxication and drunkenness, to fancy that he himself is the bringer about of each of human affairs.

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
1 γὰρ] ἄγαν conicio
3 τὸ ἄνω U (non τὸν ἄνω)
4 ζῴων Mang.: ζωὴν U
10 διαφέρῃ U
14 ἀγέννητον U
16 πρώτην U (non πρῶτον)
19 Σὴμ εἰς Tisch.: ἡμεῖς U
22 τὸν Mang.: τὸ U
24 ἐπιδόσεις scripsi: ἐπιτάσεις U
27 δικαίου Mang.: δίκαιος U
28 αὔξησις coni. Mang.
29 ἀνεωσμένου conicio
31 αὐτῶν U
32 τοῦτ’ αὐταῖς U

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 175

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