Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 27

ed. Paul Wendland

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[27] 9 οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ὥσπερ ἀπ’ ἀγχόνης τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἐκκρεμάσθωσαν. Ἀβραὰμ δὲ ὁ σοφὸς ἐπειδὴ ἕστηκε, συνεγγίζει τῷ ἑστῶτι θεῷ· λέγει γὰρ ὅτι „ἑστὼς ἦν ἔναντι κυρίου καὶ ἐγγίσας εἶπεν“ (Gen. 18, 22. 23). ὄντως γὰρ ἀτρέπτῳ ψυχῇ πρὸς τὸν ἄτρεπτον θεὸν μόνῃ πρόσοδός ἐστι, καὶ ἡ
τοῦτον διακειμένη τὸν τρόπον ἐγγὺς ὡς ἀληθῶς ἵσταται δυνάμεως θείας.

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.) — 27 focus

Let these men, then, hang by their appetites as by a halter; but the wise Abraham, where he stands, comes near to God, who is also standing. For Moses says that "Abraham was standing near to God; and coming nigh unto him, he said," ¹ ... For in good truth the unalterable soul is the only thing that has access to the unalterable God; and being of such a disposition, it does really stand very near to the Divine power.

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