Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 26

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[26] οὗ χάριν ἐν ἑτέροις „κεκατηραμένον ὑπὸ θεοῦ τὸν κρεμάμενον ἐπὶ ξύλου“ φησίν (Deut. 21, 23), ὅτι, θεοῦ δέον ἐκκρέμασθαι,
¹² ὁ δὲ ἀπῃώρησεν ἑαυτὸν σώματος, ὅς ἐστιν ἐν ἡμῖν ξύλινος ὄγκος, ἐπιθυμίαν ἐλπίδος ἀντικαταλλαξάμενος, ἀγαθοῦ τελείου μέγιστον κακόν. ἐλπὶς μὲν γὰρ τῶν ἀγαθῶν οὖσα προσδοκία ἐκ τοῦ φιλοδώρου θεοῦ τὴν διάνοιαν ἀρτᾷ, ἐπιθυμία δὲ ἀλόγους ἐμποιοῦσα ὀρέξεις ἐκ τοῦ σώματος,
ὃ δεξαμενὴν καὶ χώραν ἡδονῶν ἡ φύσις ἐδημιούργησεν.

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.) — 26 focus

[26] On which account Moses says, in another place, "Cursed of God is he that hangeth on a tree;" ¹ because what he ought to hang upon is God. But such a man has, of his own accord, bound himself to the body, which is a wooden burden upon us, exchanging hope for desire and a perfect hope for the greatest of evils; for hope, being the expectation of good things, causes the mind to depend upon the bounteous God; but appetite, creating only unreasonable desires, depends on the body, which nature has made to be a sort of receptacle and abode for the soul.

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De Posteritate Caini

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1 ταλαντεύουσα Mang.: θαλαττεύουσα U ἀντιρέπει U
4 μὲν seclusit Cohn
5 ἑστὼς U
9 ἀναπαύσει σε Tisch.: ἀναπαύσεις U 11.
12 αἰεὶ παρὰ — εἶναι καὶ om. D K D R D L (habet D2 R).
11 παρὰ Mang. (cf. Testimonia): περὶ U
13 καὶ ἐρηρεῖσθαι παγιώς D2 R ἐνερίσθαι D K ἄλλοτε D: ἀλλ’ ὅτι U
14 ἀστῶν ἔστιν ὅτε μηδὲν ὡς περὶ αὐτὰς U μηδενὸς συμβεβηκότος τἀναντία καινοτέρου D2 R 15.
16 μέγας — γινόμενος om. D
16 χρόνῳ Mang.
17 ὅπερ ἔφη ὁ νομοθέτης om. D καὶ ἔστιν ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ πᾶσα D K D L D R, καὶ ἔστιν ἡ ζωὴ πᾶσα αὐτῷ D2 R 17.
18 ἀκράδαντον οὐκ ἔχουσα D
18 ἀντιμεθελκόντων D: μεθελκόντων U 18.
19 φορουμένη om. D L D R, φερομένη D2 R
20 δέον U: δὲ v, δεῖ coni. Mang. novum enuntiatum ab ὁ δὲ incipiens

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19 D K fol. 134r Φίλωνος ἐκ τοῦ η΄ καὶ θ΄ τῆς νόμων ἱερῶν ἀλληγορίας DL fol. 39v Φίλωνος ἐκ τῶν ἐν ἐξόδῳ ζητουμένων DR fol. 35r Φίλωνος ἐκ τῶν ἐν γενέσει ζητουμένων et fol. 135v (= D2 R) τοῦ αὐτοῦ: πέφυκεν ὁ ἄφρων — φορουμένη πραγμάτων. — DM fol. 117r D V p. 448 (Φίλωνος): πέφυκεν ὁ ἄφρων ἐπὶ μηδενὸς ἑστάναι πράγματος, καὶ ἐστιν ζωὴ πᾶσα κρεμαμένη βάσιν ἀκράδαντον οὐκ ἔχουσα. eadem exstant in Floril. Paris. nr. 1 Mel. Barocc. fol. 127v, in Max. Ecl. cap. 60. — Floril. Paris. nr. 18, Mel. Barocc. I. c. Max. I. c: πέφυκεν ὁ ἄφρων ἀεὶ παρὰ (ἐπὶ Barocc.) τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον κινούμενος ἠρεμίᾳ καὶ ἀναπαύσει δυσμενὴς εἶναι (ἀνάπαυσις δυσμενὴς ἦν Barocc).

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