Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 20

ed. Paul Wendland

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[20] λέγεται δ’ ὅτι καὶ ἐγγύτατα ὁ αὐτὸς ὢν καὶ μακράν ἐστιν, ἁπτόμενος μὲν ταῖς ποιητικαῖς καὶ κολαστηρίοις δυνάμεσι πλησίον ὑπαρχούσαις ἑκάστου, πορρωτάτω δὲ τῆς κατὰ
τὸ εἶναι φύσεως αὑτοῦ τὸ γενητὸν ἀπεληλακώς, ὡς μηδὲ κατὰ τὰς ἀκραιφνεῖς καὶ ἀσωμάτους τῆς p. 230 M. διανοίας ἐπιβολὰς ψαῦσαι δύνασθαι.

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.) — 20 focus

[20] And it is said that he, at the same moment, is close to us and at a great distance, touching us with his creative or his punishing powers, which are close to each individual, and yet at the same time driving away the creature to an excessive distance from his nature as existing according to its essence, so that it cannot touch him without even the unalloyed and incorporeal efforts of the intellect.

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