Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 84

ed. Paul Wendland

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[84] σφόδρα δὲ
καὶ Μωυσῆς ἀχθόμενος τοῖς τοιούτοις καταρᾶται λέγων· „ἐπικατάρατος ὁ μετατιθεὶς ὅρια τοῦ πλησίον“ (Deut. 27,17). καλεῖ δὲ πλησίον καὶ ἐγγὺς τἀγαθόν· οὐ γὰρ ἀναπτῆναι, φησίν, εἰς οὐρανὸν οὐδὲ πέραν θαλάσσης ἀφικέσθαι δεῖ κατὰ ζήτησιν τοῦ καλοῦ· ἐγγὺς γὰρ καὶ πλησίον ἵστασθαι ἑκάστῳ.

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.) — 84 focus

[84] And Moses is very indignant with such people as these, and curses them, saying, "Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark." ¹ And what he means by one’s neighbours, and that which is near to a man, is the good. "For it is not good," says he, "to depart to the heaven, nor ²³⁴⁵ to go beyond the sea," ⁶ in the search after what is good; for that stand near to, and close by, each individual.

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