Philo Judaeus De Sobrietate 9

ed. Paul Wendland

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[9] ἀλλ’ ὅμως παιδίον νεανίας ὢν ἤδη καλεῖται ὁ σοφιστὴς ἀντεξεταζόμενος σοφῷ· σοφίαν μὲν γὰρ Ἰσαάκ, σοφιστείαν δὲ Ἰσμαὴλ κεκλήρωται, ὡς, ἐπειδὰν ἑκάτερον χαρακτηρίζωμεν,
ἐν τοῖς ἰδίᾳ λόγοις ἐπιδείκνυμεν. ὃν γὰρ ἔχει λόγον κομιδῇ νήπιον παιδίον πρὸς ἄνδρα τέλειον, τοῦτον καὶ σοφιστὴς πρὸς σοφὸν καὶ τὰ ἐγκύκλια τῶν μαθημάτων πρὸς τὰς ἐν ἀρεταῖς ἐπιστήμας.

De Sobrietate. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Sobrietate (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On Sobriety First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 9 focus

[9] But nevertheless, though in reality a young man, he is still called a child, being as it were a sophist put in comparison with a wise man; for Isaac received wisdom for his inheritance, and Ishmael sophistry, as when we define the characters of each we purpose to show in certain dialogues. For the same relation which a completely infant child bears to a full-grown ¹ man, the same does a sophist bear to a wise man, and the encyclical branches of education to real knowledge in virtue.

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