Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 191

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[191] τοτὲ δὲ κἀν ταῖς ἐγρηγόρσεσιν· ὅταν γὰρ ἔκ τινος τῶν κατὰ φιλοσοφίαν κατασχεθεὶς θεωρημάτων ἀχθῇ πρὸς αὐτοῦ, τῷ μὲν ἕπεται, τῶν
δ’ ἄλλων ὅσα κατὰ τὸν σωματικὸν ὄγκον ἀμνημονεῖ δήπου. κἂν ἐμποδίζωσιν αἱ αἰσθήσεις πρὸς τὴν ἀκριβῆ θέαν τοῦ νοητοῦ, μέλει τοῖς φιλοθεάμοσι καθαιρεῖν αὐτῶν τὴν ἐπίθεσιν· τάς τε γὰρ ὄψεις καταμύουσι καὶ τὰ ὦτα ἐπιφράττουσι καὶ τὰς τῶν ἄλλων αἰσθήσεων ἐπέχουσιν ὁρμὰς καὶ ἐν ἐρημίᾳ καὶ σκότῳ διατρίβειν ἀξιοῦσιν, ὡς μὴ πρός
τινος αἰσθητοῦ τὸ ψυχῆς ὄμμα, ᾧ νοητὰ βλέπειν ἔδωκεν ὁ θεός, ἐπισκιασθῇ.

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.) — 191 focus

[191] For when, being under the influence of some philosophical speculations, you are allured onwards, then the mind follows this, and forgets all the other things which concern its corporeal abode; and if the external senses prevent it from arriving at an accurate sight of the objects of the intellect, then those who are fond of contemplation take care to diminish the impetuosity of its attack, for they close their eyes and stop up their ears, and check the rapid motion of the other organ, and choose to abide in tranquillity and darkness, that the eye of the soul, to which God has granted the power of understanding the objects of the intellect, may never be overshadowed by any of those objects appreciable only by the outward senses.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 191

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