Philo Judaeus De Posteritate Caini 93

ed. Paul Wendland

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[93] πῶς οὖν οὐκ ἐπιπληκτέος Ἰωβήλ, ὃς ἑλλάδι γλώττῃ μεταλλοιῶν καλεῖται τὰς φύσεις τῶν πραγμάτων ἢ μεταποιῶν; τὰ γὰρ φρονήσεως καὶ καρτερίας καὶ δικαιοσύνης καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀρετῆς κάλλη θεοειδέστατα τύποις ἐναντίοις
ἀφροσύνης, [καὶ] ἀκρασίας, ἀδικίας, ἁπάσης κακίας μετεχάραττεν ἀφανίζων

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.) — 93 focus

[93] How, then, can we do any thing but blame Jubal, whose name being interpreted into the Greek language, means one who ( μεταλλοιῶν ἢ μεταποιῶν) changes or alters the natures of things? For those most divine beauties of prudence, and fortitude, and justice, and other virtues, he did change for the opposite impressions of folly, and intemperance, and injustice, and all wickedness, effacing all the impressions which had previously been stamped upon the natures of things. ¹

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