Philo Judaeus, De Posteritate Caini, ed. Paul Wendland, 91

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[91] 26 μήποτ’ οὖν πατέρα μὲν τῆς ψυχῆς ἡμῶν τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον καλεῖ, πρεσβυτέρους δὲ τοὺς ἑταίρους αὐτοῦ καὶ φίλους. οὗτοι τῆς ἀρετῆς τοὺς ὅρους ἐπήξαντο πρῶτοι, πρὸς οὓς ἄξιον φοιτῆσαι μαθήσεως καὶ διδασκαλίας ἕνεκα τῶν ἀναγκαίων. τὰ
δ’ ἀναγκαῖα ταῦτα· ὁπότε ὁ θεὸς διένεμε καὶ διετείχιζε τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἔθνη τὰ ὁμόφωνα τῶν ἀλλογλώττων διιστὰς καὶ διοικίζων, τούς τε γῆς ¹ παῖδας ἔσπειρε καὶ ἐξετόξευσεν ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ, οὓς Ἀδὰμ ὠνόμασεν υἱούς, τότε τῶν ἀρετῆς ἐκγόνων τοὺς ὅρους ἔστησεν ἰσαρίθμους ἀγγέλοις· ὅσοι γὰρ θεοῦ λόγοι, τοσαῦτα ἀρετῆς ἔθνη τε καὶ εἴδη.

De Posteritate Caini. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 91 focus

Perhaps, therefore, it is the right reason of our souls that he calls their father, and its companions and friends that he calls elders. These are they who first established the boundaries of virtue, to whom it is worth while to become pupils for the sake of learning and instruction in necessary things. And what is necessary is as follows. When God was dividing and drawing a wall between the nations of the soul, separating those who spoke different languages; and when establishing the sons of the earth in their abodes, he dispersed them and removed to a distance from himself those whom he called the sons of Adam; then he fixed the boundaries of the offspring of virtue, making them equal in number to the angels; for as many angels of God as there are, so many nations and species of virtue are there.

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De Posteritate Caini

1.
3 δὲ prius R
5 λόγων U
7 λύραν UR: λύρας Mang.
10 ὥστ’ U: ὥστε R
14 τοῦ] τῶν U
20 θρύψαντος U
21 ἡ scripsi: ἡ U, εἰ Tisch., ᾖ Otto ἔθνη Mang.: ἐθνῶν U ὁ fortasse delendum coni. Holwerda
22 ὤκησεν U, διῴκισεν coni. Mang. κερισμῶ U, ut vid.
23 ἐκείνῳ scripsi: ἑκάστω U, ἕκαστοι Holweida
25 ὅ τι Mang.: οὔτι V
26 ἀνεπιστήμονες Mang.: ἀνεπιστήμονι U
28 αὐτοῦ Mang.: αὐτῶν U
31 τούς τε Cohn: τε τοὺς U, τε del. Tiscb. 2*

Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 91

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