Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 22

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[22] 7 Ἄξιον δὲ σκέψασθαι καὶ τὴν χώραν, εἰς ἣν ἐκ προσώπου γενόμενος θεοῦ στέλλεται· ἔστι δὲ ἣ καλεῖται σάλος, δηλοῦντος τοῦ νομοθέτου ὅτι ὁ ἄφρων ἀστάτοις καὶ ἀνιδρύτοις ὁρμαῖς κεχρημένος σάλον καὶ
κλόνον, οἷα κυμαῖνον πέλαγος πρὸς ἐναντίων πνευμάτων χειμῶνος ὥρᾳ, ὑπομένει, γαλήνης δὲ ἢ νηνεμίας ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὄναρ ἐπῄσθηται. ὥσπερ δ’ ὅταν ναῦς σαλεύῃ θαλαττεύουσα, τότ’ οὔτε πλεῖν οὔτε ὁρμεῖν ἐστιν ἱκανή, διαφερομένη δὲ ὧδε κἀκεῖσε πρὸς ἑκάτερον τοῖχον ἀποκλίνει καὶ ¹² ταλαντεύουσα ἀντιρρέπει, οὕτως ὁ φαῦλος παραφόρῳ καὶ χειμαινούσῃ διανοίᾳ κεχρημένος εὐθύνειν τὸν ἑαυτοῦ πλοῦν ἀπταίστως ἀδυνατῶν αἰεὶ σαλεύει βίου μελετῶν ἀνατροπήν.

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.) — 22 focus

It is worth while also to consider the wickedness into which a man who flies from the face of God is driven, since it is called a tempest. The law-giver showing, by this expression, that he who gives way to inconsiderate impulses without any stability or firmness exposes himself to surf and violent tossing, like those of the sea, when it is agitated in the winter season by contrary winds, and has never even a single glimpse of calm or tranquillity. But as when a ship having been tossed in the sea is agitated, it is then no longer fit to take a voyage or to anchor in harbour, but being tossed about hither and thither it leans first to one side and then to the other, and struggles in vain against the waves; so the wicked man, yielding to a perverse and insane disposition, and being unable to regulate his voyage through life without disaster, is constantly tossed about in perpetual expectation of an overturning of his life.

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
5 ἄν addidi
8 ὢν] fortasse ὁμοῦ
9 πορρωτάτω scripsi: πόρρω U, πορρώτατον Mang.
10 αὐτοῦ U γεννητὸν U
11 ἐπιβολὰς Mang.: ἐπιβουλὰς U ψαῦσαι scripsi (vel ἐφάψασθαι?): ψεύσασθαι U, ψαύσασθαι Mang.
13 προευφραίνειν D: προσευφραίνειν U
14 ἀτυχῆται U: ἀτυχῆ D C, τύχῃ D R D C in mg. τέλος αὐτῆς D ὃς Mang.: ὡς U
15 τοῦ ὄντος Mang.: ὄντως U
17 τὴν χώραν Mang.: τὴν κακίαν U
18 ἔστι δὲ ἧ U ἣ Cohn): ἐπειδὴ Mang.
20 ὥρᾳ Mang.: ὥρας U
21 ἐπῄσθηται Mang.: ἐπήρτηται U

2.
12 —
14 D C fol. 183r: ἐκ τοῦ η΄ καὶ θ΄ τῆς νόμων ἱερῶν ἀλληγορίας D R fol. 178v Φίλωνος: ἀναζητοῦσιν τοῖς φιλοθέοις τὸ ὃν, κἀν — τὸ τέλος αὐτῆς.
17 ss. Clemens Slrom. II §
51 p. 456 P: ὁ δὲ οἰησίσοφος (ἐκ ἐκ vid. del.) τῶν τῆς ἀληθείας οὐχ ἅπτεται ἀστάτοις καὶ ἀιδρύτοις ὁρμαῖς κεχρημένος. εἰκότως οὑν γέγραπται· „ἐξῆλθεν δὲ Κάιν ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ᾤκησεν ἐν γῇ Ναίδ’ κατέναντι Ἐδὲμ“. ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ ἡ μὲν Ναίδ’ σάλος . . . . ἀφηνιάσας εἰς σάλον κυμαινόμενον ἑκὼν μεθίσταται . . . . ἄλλοτε ἀλλοῖα δοξάζων, cf. etiam Hieronymi Quaest. p. 9,20 —
25 Lag.

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