Philo Judaeus, De Confusione Linguarum, ed. Paul Wendland, 81

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[81] τῷ δ’ αὐτοδιδάκτῳ καὶ λόγιον ἐχρήσθη τοιόνδε· „μὴ καταβῇς εἰς„ τὸ πάθος „Αἴγυπτον, κατοίκησον
δ’ ἐν τῇ γῇ ἣν ἄν σοι εἴπω„ (Gen. 26,2), τῇ ἀδείκτῳ καὶ ἀσωμάτῳ φρονήσει, καὶ παροίκει ἐν τῇ γῇ ταύτῃ, τῇ δεικνυμένῃ καὶ αἰσθητῇ ¹² οὐσίᾳ, πρὸς τὸ δεῖξαι ὅτι παροικεῖ μὲν ὁ σοφὸς ὡς ἐν ξένῃ σώματι αἰσθητῷ, κατοικεῖ δ’ ὡς ἐν πατρίδι νοηταῖς ἀρεταῖς, ἃς λαλεῖ ὁ θεὸς ἀδιαφορούσας λόγων θείων.

De Confusione Linguarum. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

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

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On the Confusion of Languages First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 81 focus

[81] But to him who was self-taught the following injunction of scripture was given, "Do not go down," says the scripture, "to Egypt," that is to say to passion; "but dwell in this land ¹² land which I will tell thee of," ³ namely, in the incorporeal wisdom which cannot be pointed out to the eye; and be a sojourner in this land, the substance which can be pointed out and appreciated by the external sense. And this is said with a view to show, that the wise man is a sojourner in a foreign land, that is to say in the body perceptible by the outward senses, who dwells among the virtues appreciable by the intellect as in his native land, which virtues God utters as in no way differing from the divine word.

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De confusione linguarum

1.
1 dντοι] μέν τι F
2 χρόνου G καὶ om. G’F
3 λέγοντες HPL’
7 εἰς ἅπαν H
9 οὐδέποτε Cohn: δέ ποτε GF, δὴ ποτε HP
10 ἐπίγειον coni. Mang.
11 ἐντρίψασαι G σώματι HP
12 αὑτῶν Η κἀκεῖσε HPL’
13 ξένην Mang.: ξένον codd.
15 δή] δοκεῖ mg. P
17 Ἀβραὰμ, Ἁβρὰμ F
18 τ)́φου codd. : τάφου v
20 προσεδρίας G, προεδρίαν HP τὸν ὄνομα coni. Mang., (o’j) ὄνομα Cohn
21 ὃς GF: HP ὒ] ὡς F
23 ἐξήκοντα G, ἐξίκοντα Ε
26 ἀσωμ́των G

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3 sqq. Origenes, Selecta in Genesim p. 34: Ἀβραὰμ οὐ κατῴκει Αῖγυmον, ἀλλά παρῴκει, ibid.: ὡς φαῦλοι οἱ xαναναῖοι κατῴκουν καὶ οὐ παρῴκουν τὴν γῆν· ὥστε φαῦλοι κατοικοῦσιν, οὐ παροικοῦσι τὴν γῆν. — cf. Auyustini Quaestionem de Genesi CLVI.

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