Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 130

ed. Paul Wendland

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[130] ἑτέρωθι γοῦν φησιν ὅτι ἐποίησεν Ἀβραὰμ „πάντα τὸν νόμον μου“ (Gen. 26, 5)· νόμος δὲ οὐδὲν ἄρα ἢ λόγος θεῖος προστάττων ἃ δεῖ καὶ ἀπαγορεύων ἃ μὴ χρή, ὡς μαρτυρεῖ φάσκων ὅτι „ἐδέξατο
ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων αὐτοῦ νόμον“ (Deut. 33, 3. 4). εἰ τοίνυν λόγος μέν ἐστι θεῖος ὁ νόμος, ποιεῖ δ’ ὁ ἀστεῖος τὸν νόμον, ποιεῖ πάντως καὶ τὸν λόγον· ὥσθ’, ὅπερ ἔφην, τοὺς τοῦ θεοῦ λόγους πράξεις εἶναι τοῦ σοφοῦ.

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.) — 130 focus

[130] At all events, God is represented in another passage as saying, "Abraham has kept all my law." ¹ And law is nothing else but the word of God, enjoining what ²³⁴ is right, and forbidding what is not right, as he bears witness, where he says, "He received the law from his words." ⁵ If, then, the divine word is the law, and if the righteous man does the law, then by all means he also performs the the word of God. So that, as I said before, the words of God are the actions of the wise man.

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