Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 151

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[151] τοῦτο γὰρ ἔσθ’ ὃ δυσαπότριπτον ὂν παρέπεται ψυχῇ κωλῦον αὐτὴν πρὸς ἀρετὴν ὠκυδρομεῖν· τοῦθ’, ἡνίκα καὶ τὴν ¹² Αἴγυπτον ἀπελείπομεν, τὴν σωματικὴν χώραν ἅπασαν, ἀπομαθεῖν τὰ πάθη σπουδάσαντες κατὰ τὰς τοῦ προφήτου λόγου, Μωυσέως, ὑφηγήσεις, ἠκολούθησεν ἡμῖν, ἐλλαμβανόμενον τῆς περὶ τὴν ἔξοδον σπουδῆς καὶ τῷ τάχει τῆς ἀπολείψεως ὑπὸ φθόνου βραδυτῆτας ἐμποιοῦν·

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 151 focus

[151] for this is that disposition which attaches itself to the soul in such a manner as to be difficult to shake off, hindering it from proceeding swiftly on its progress towards virtue. This, too, when we leave Egypt, that is to say, the whole of the district connected with the body, being anxious to unlearn our subjection to the passions, in accordance with the language and precepts of the prophet Moses, follows us close, checking and impeding our zeal in the departure, and out of envy causing delay to the rapidity of setting forth;

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 ἐν ἄλλοις ἀπ’ ὧδε λόγος δεύτερος περὶ ἀποικίας mg. H μετὰ τοῦ HP
2 ἀποκλίνεται coni. Mang.
3 αὖ τὸ Η: αὐτὸ MAP
6 ὑπὸ HP
7 ἐφ’] ὑφ’ Α
8 ῥοπὴν coni. Mang.
9 θιασώτης Mang. : θεατής codd.
13 κἀκεῖνο P, κἀκείνου Α 13.
14 κατὰ τὴν καταγὴν L) ἔνθεν ὀλίσθους corrupta, κατάγειν ἔνθεν ὄλισθος ν, κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ἐμποιεῖν (ἐνθεῖναι Cohn) ὀλίσθους conicio
14 ἐπὶ Mang. : ὑπὸ codd.
19 σλεύη APH1 δ’ εἴδει A (δ’ εἰ in ras.) 20.
21 δυσθεράπευτον coni. Mang.
21 δυσαπότρεπτον coni. Mang.
22 κολῦον M 22. 298,1 καὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον om. MA

2.
1 sqq. Ambrosius De Ahraham II 2, 6: unde et addidit „et exivit cum eo Lot", hoc est declinatio. id enim nominis significat interpretatio, eo quod, ut viantes incognitam carpentes viam semitis aliquibus saepe falluntur, ut a directo deflectant tramite, et tamen, si prudentes sunt, non deviant, sed cunctabundi licet regionis ipsius contuitu viam colligunt, ita et Abraham nutabundus quidem tamen tramitem veri sequebatur. ducebatur plerumque falsa specie bonorum, sed non penitus inclinabatur. perfecti est enim non deflectere, prudentis non penitus declinare. 6,
25 declinatio enim dicitur Lot . . . . declinat autem quisque aut bonum aut malum.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 151

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