Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 55

ed. Paul Wendland

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[55] αὗται δὲ τροπικώτερον
νοῦν, αἴσθησιν, λόγον, τὰ περὶ ἡμᾶς ὄντα, δηλοῦσιν· ἡ μὲν γὰρ Πειθὼ ὁ λόγος ἐστίν, ὅτι περὶ τοῦτον τὸ πείθειν, ἔχει δὲ ἑρμηνείαν στόμα ἐκθλῖβον, ἐπειδήπερ καὶ ὁ τοῦ φαύλου λόγος ἐξωθεῖν καὶ ἀνατρέπειν τὰ σπουδαῖα μελετᾷ.

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.) — 55 focus

[55] And these cities, if taken symbolically, mean mind, the outward sense, and the faculty of speech, which are the three principal things in us; for Peithom means speech, because persuasion ( τό πείθειν) arises from speech; and the interpretation of Peithom is, a mouth-uttering, since the reasoning of the wicked man comes from without, and occupies itself with endeavouring to overturn all that is good: and Rameses is the inward sense;

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