Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 199

ed. Paul Wendland

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[199] νοητὸς μὲν γὰρ καὶ πρεσβύτερος
καὶ ἄφθαρτος λόγος ὁ τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα, αἰσθητὸς δὲ καὶ νεώτερος ὁ ταῖς πέντε ἰσάριθμος ὢν αἰσθήσεσι. τούτῳ καὶ ὁ ἔτι γυμναζόμενος ἀσκητὴς ἐξετάζεται, μηδέπω δεδυνημένος ἐνέγκασθαι τὰ τέλεια νικητήρια· λέγεται γὰρ ὅτι "ἦσαν αἱ πᾶσαι ψυχαὶ ἐξ Ἰακὼβ πέντε καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα“ (Exod. 1,5)·

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.) — 199 focus

[199] for the elder, the imperishable ratio, that comprehensible by the intellect, exists in the seventy; the younger ratio, discernible by the outward senses, is equal in number to the five outward senses. In this latter also the practiser of virtue is seen exercising himself when he has not yet been able to carry off the perfect prize of victory; —for it is said, that all the souls which came out of Jacob were seventy and five; ¹—

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