Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 200

ed. Paul Wendland

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[200] τοῦ γὰρ ἀθλοῦντος καὶ τὸν ὑπὲρ κτήσεως
ἀρετῆς ἱερὸν ὄντως ἀγῶνα μὴ διαφθείροντος ψυχαὶ μὲν πρὸ σωμάτων γεννήματα, οὔπω δ’ ἐκτετμημέναι τὸ ἄλογον, ἀλλ’ ἔτι τὸν αἰσθήσεως ὄχλον ἐφελκόμεναι. παλαίοντος γὰρ καὶ κονιομένου καὶ πτερνίζοντος Ἰακώβ ἐστιν ὄνομα, οὐ νενικηκότος·

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.) — 200 focus

[200] for to him, while wrestling, and not shrinking at all from the truly sacred contest, for the acquisition of virtue, belong the souls which are the offspring of the body, and which have not yet acquired reason, but are still attracted by the multitude of the outward senses. For Jacob is the name of one who is wrestling and engaged in a contest and trying to trip up his antagonist, not of one who has gained the victory.

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