Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 12

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[12] ἀλλὰ μετανάστηθι κἀκ τοῦ κατὰ προφορὰν λόγου, ὃν πατρὸς οἶκον ὠνόμασεν, ἵνα μὴ ῥημάτων καὶ ὀνομάτων ἀπατηθεὶς κάλλεσι τοῦ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν κάλλους, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἐν τοῖς δηλουμένοις
πράγμασι, διαζευχθῇς. ἄτοπον γὰρ ἢ σκιὰν σωμάτων ἢ μίμημα ἀρχετύπων φέρεσθαι πλέον· σκιᾷ μὲν δὴ καὶ μιμήματι ἔοικεν ἑρμηνεία, σώμασι δὲ καὶ ἀρχετύποις αἱ τῶν διερμηνευομένων φύσεις πραγμάτων, ¹² ὧν τὸν ἐφιέμενον τοῦ εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦ δοκεῖν χρὴ περιέχεσθαι διοικιζόμενον ἀπ’ ἐκείνων.

De Migratione Abrahami. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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

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On the Migration of Abraham First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 12 focus

[12] But now rise up also and quit speech according to utterance, which Moses here represents God as calling your father’s house, that you may not be deceived by the specious beauty of words and names, and so be separated from that real beauty which exists in the things themselves which are intended by these names. For it is absurd for a shadow to be looked upon as of more importance than the bodies themselves, or for an imitation to carry off the palm from the model. Now the interpretation resembles a shadow and an imitation, but the natures of things signified under these expressions, thus interpreted, resemble the bodies and original models which the man who aims at being such and such rather than at appearing so must cling to, removing to a distance from the other things.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 ἂν ἢν coni. Cohn
2 ἀλλοτριώθητι] ἡ ex corr. H1, ἀλλοτριωθἐντι H2
3 ἡγεμόνι Η2
4 λλλὰ om. H2 σαυτὸν H2
5 Μωυσῆν coni. Mang.
6 οἶς H2: om. ceteri
7 αἰσθήσει Α παμμίαρον ex corr. H1, mg. P, παμμίοις text. P
8 τὸ om. H2 εἱρκτοφύλακας MH1P
9 μηδὲ H2
10 παριεὶς H2
11 ἄπελθε καὶ om. Α
12 ἀλλότριος H2 ἀγαθῶν AP2
13 κἄν] καὶ Α πάντα L ἡσυχάζουσιν Α
15 ἐάν] εἰ H2 ἐθελήσῃς MA: θελήσης P, ἐθέλεις P, θέλῃς H2 ἑαυτοῦ H1 κτίσιν P
16 αὐτῶν L διαζεύξῃς ἢ ἀλλοτριώσῃς H2
17 dXXd M
19 ὠνόμασεν MA: ὠνόμασαν Η2, ἐκάλεσεν H1P
22 μιμήματα H2

2. 8.sqq. 19qq. ibid. lib. II 1,3: neque in sensibus (sc. est bonum), qui saepe luduntur, neque in sono vocis, quae falsis plerumque animam demulcet cantibus, est perfcctum bonura.
22 sqq. ibid. II 1,3. unde in alteram terram vocatur plenam beatitudine, ubi non falsa pro veris sicut in hac vita, sed vivam rerum cernat substantiam, eo quod excussa corporis et sensuum et vocis nebu10sa quadam imagine corruptibilera caliginem dcponat. . . .

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