Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 182

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[182] ἁπάντων ἡδονήν. 54 ἀφ’ ἧς ἐξαναστὰς ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ θεραπευτὴς τοῦ μόνου καλοῦ Φινεές, ὁ τῶν σωματικῶν στομίων καὶ τρημάτων δίοπος, ὡς μηδὲν αὐτῶν διαμαρτάνον ἐξυβρίζειν — ἑρμηνεύεται γὰρ
στόματος φιμός —, λαβὼν τὸν σειρομάστην, τουτέστι μαστεύσας καὶ ἀναζητήσας τὴν τῶν ὄντων φύσιν καὶ μηδὲν σεμνότερον ἀρετῆς ἀνευρὼν κατεκέντει καὶ ἀνῄρει τῷ λόγῳ τὴν μισάρετον καὶ φιλήδονον γένεσιν καὶ τοὺς τόπους, ἐξ ὧν ἐβλάστησαν αἱ παράσημοι καὶ παράκοποι χλιδαί τε καὶ θρύψεις.

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.) — 182 focus

From which that priest and servant of the only good God, Phineas, rising up ¹ — that wise regulator of all the corporeal words and expressions, so as never to behave erroneously or insolently through the medium of them; for the interpretation of the name Phineas is "the bridle of the mouth"— having taken a coadjutor, that is to say, having inquired into and examined the nature of things, and having found that nothing is more honourable than virtue, stabbed and slew with a sword the creature devoted to pleasure, and hostile to virtue, and all the places from which all false and illegitimate delights and enjoyments spring:

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 182

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