Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 65

ed. Paul Wendland

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[65] εἶτ’ ἐπιλέγει· „αὕτη ἡ βίβλος γενέσεως οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς, ὅτε ἐγένετο, ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν“ (Gen. 2, 4). τῇ δὲ πρώτῃ ταῦτα γέγονεν, ὥστε τὴν ἑβδόμην εἰς μονάδα τὴν πρώτην καὶ ἀρχὴν τῶν ὅλων ἀναφέρεσθαι. ταῦτ’
ἐμηκύναμεν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δεῖξαι τηλαυγέστερον τὴν δόξαν, ἣν ὁ Κάιν ὥσπερ τινὰ πόλιν οἴεται δεῖν κατασκευάζειν.

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.) — 65 focus

[65] and after that he concludes his account in these words, "This is the book of the generation of heaven and of earth when they were made, on the day in which God made the heaven and the earth; and these things were done in the first day, so that the seventh day is referred to the unit which is the first day and the beginning of the whole. I have dwelt at length on this topic, with the object of showing more plainly the opinion which Cain thought it right to build up like a city.

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