Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 154

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[154] διὰ τὸν ἐπίμικτον
καὶ δασὺν τοῦτον ὄχλον ἐκ μιγάδων καὶ συγκλύδων συμπεφυρμένον δοξῶν ὠκυδρομῆσαι δυνάμενος ὁ νοῦς, ὅτε τὴν σωματικὴν χώραν ἀπεδίδρασκεν Αἴγυπτον, καὶ τρισὶν ἡμέραις (Gen. 22, 3) διαδέξασθαι τὸν ἀρετῆς κλῆρον φωτὶ τρισσῷ, μνήμῃ τῶν παρεληλυθότων καὶ ἐναργείᾳ τῶν παρόντων καὶ τῇ τῶν μελλόντων ἐλπίδι, τεσσαράκοντα ἐτῶν ἀριθμόν,
μῆκος τοσούτου χρόνου, τρίβεται τὴν ἐν κύκλῳ περιάγων καὶ ἀλώμενος ἕνεκα τοῦ πολυτρόπου, τὴν ἐπ’ εὐθείας ἀνυσιμωτάτην οὖσαν δέον.

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.) — 154 focus

[154] On account, then, of this mixed and rough multitude collected together from mixed opinions collected from all imaginable quarters, the mind which was able to exert great speed when it was fleeing from the country of the body, that is, from Egypt, and which was able in those days to receive the inheritance of virtue, being assisted by a threefold light, the memory of past things, the energy of present things, and the hope of the future, passed that exceeding length of time, forty years, in going up and down, and all around, wandering in every direction by reason of the diversity of manners, when it ought rather to have proceeded by the straight and most advantageous way.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 154

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