Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 57

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[57] ἡ δὲ Ὢν καλεῖται μὲν βουνός, ἔστι δὲ συμβολικῶς ὁ νοῦς· ἐπὶ γὰρ τοῦτον ¹² οἱ πάντων θησαυρίζονται λόγοι. μάρτυς δὲ καὶ ὁ νομοθέτης τὴν Ὢν Ἡλίου πόλιν προσαγορεύσας· ὥσπερ γὰρ ἀνατείλας ἥλιος τὰ κρυπτόμενα νυκτὶ ἐμφανῶς ἐπιδείκνυται, οὕτως ὁ νοῦς τὸ οἰκεῖον φῶς ἀποστέλλων πάντα καὶ τὰ σώματα καὶ τὰ πράγματα τηλαυγῶς παρασκευάζει καταλαμβάνεσθαι.

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.) — 57 focus

[57] But On is said to be a hill, and it means, symbolically, the mind; for all reasonings are stored up in the mind: and the lawgiver himself is a witness of this, calling On, Heliopolis, the city of the sun. For as the sun, when he rises, shows visibly the things ¹²³ which have been hidden by night, so also the mind, sending forth its own proper light, causes all bodies and all things to be seen visibly at a distance.

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De Posteritate Caini

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3 ἐν ἑαυτοῦ scripsi (ἑαυ U): ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ Mang. post ψυχῇ add. ἧ U
4 βουλευθεὶς Holwerda: βουληθεὶς U, χολωθεὶς Mang., ἐνθυμηθεὶς Cohn, θυμωθεὶς olim conieci .0 ἀλλὰ add. Holwerda
7 ἔστι λόγον scripsi.: ἔστιν ἢ λόγον U, ἔστι τὸν νοῦν ἡ λόγον Mang., ἔστιν ἀσεβῆ δόγματα ἢ λόγον Holwerda ἑκάστου] κακίας conicio (cf. De confus. lingu. ἑ 115), ἑκάστου κακοῦ coni. Cohn
11 ἄρα τῆς Otto (cf. coafus. lingu. § 116): ἀρετῆς U, ἐπαράτου Mang.
12 τὴν om. v
13 ἀνακράζουσιν U
15 et
18 Πύθω U Ἡλιούπολις U
17 ὄντα ὀχυρώματα coni. Holwerda
18 τούτων U
19 ἔξωθεν U
20 post αἴσθησις etymologia excidisse videtur, cf. Testimonia et De somn.
1 632,32 M. ἑρμηνεύεται γὰρ σεισμὸς σητός
21 ἑκάστη U
23 ἀποτίκτουσι τὸν (vel αὐτοῦ τὸν) Tisch.: ἀποτίκτουσιν αὑτὸν U, ἀποτίκτουσιν αὐτῶ Holwerda

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20 cf. Onoinastica p. 179,14 Lag. ‘Pαμεσσῆ ἁρπαγὴ. 197,27 Ῥαμέσι ποιμανσία ἐκ σητός. Hieron. 9,30. 14,20 (Siegfried, Philo vou Alekandria p. 358)

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