Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 173

ed. Paul Wendland

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[173] ὁ δὲ ἑπόμενος θεῷ κατὰ τἀναγκαῖον συνοδοιπόροις χρῆται τοῖς ἀκολούθοις αὐτοῦ λόγοις, οὓς ὀνομάζειν ἔθος ἀγγέλους· λέγεται γοῦν ὅτι „Ἀβραὰμ συνεπορεύετο συμπροπέμπων αὐτούς“ (Gen. 18, 16). ὢ παγκάλης ἐπανισώσεως,
καθ’ ἣν ὁ παραπέμπων παρεπέμπετο, διδοὺς ὃ ἐλάμβανεν, οὐκ ἀνθ’ ἑτέρου ἕτερον, ἀλλὰ ἓν αὐτὸ μόνον ἐκεῖνο τὸ πρὸς τὰς ἀντιδόσεις ἕτοιμον.

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.) — 173 focus

[173] but the man who follows God does of necessity have for his fellow travellers all those reasons which are the attendants of God, which we are accustomed to call angels. At all events, it is said that "Abraham went with them conducting them on their way." ¹ Oh the admirable praise! according to which, he who was conducting others was himself conducted by them, only giving what he was receiving; not ²³ giving one thing instead of another, but only that one single thing, which was prepared as a retributory gift,

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