Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 221

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[221] οὗ χάριν ὁ φιλομαθὴς τοῦ τόπου Συχὲμ ἐνείληπται, μεταληφθὲν δὲ τοὔνομα Συχὲμ ὠμίασις καλεῖται, πόνου σύμβολον, ἐπειδὴ τοῖς ¹² μέρεσι τούτοις ἀχθοφορεῖν ἔθος, ὡς καὶ αὐτὸς ἑτέρωθι μέμνηται λέγων ἐπί τινος ἀθλητοῦ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον· „ὑπέθηκε τὸν ὦμον εἰς τὸ πονεῖν, καὶ ἐγένετο ἀνὴρ γεωργός" (Gen. 49, 15).

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.) — 221 focus

[221] on which account the man fond of learning is taken up to the field of Sichem; and the name Sichem, being interpreted means, "a shoulder," and intimates labour, since it is on the shoulders that men are accustomed to bear burdens. As Moses also mentions in another passage, when speaking of a certain athlete he proceeds in this manner, "He put his shoulder to the labour and became a husbandman." ¹

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 φιλοπευστοῦντες Α
4 τῶν] τὸν Α
7 γενόμενος ΑΗ
9 λειφθείς 1 διεκδύεται A
10 αὐτὸν Α
12 ἀποτροπή coni. Mang.
15 περιγίνεσθαι MAP2: παραγίνεσθαι HP1
17 ἄρρηκτος coni. Mang. οὗτος om. HP
18 δεσμός MA: δεσμός ἐστιν HP
19 ἐκκεχειρίᾳ Η2: ἑτέρᾳ ceteri, ῥᾳστώνῃ coni. Cohn (cf. vol. I p. 217,16)
20 μόλις ι conicio μόλις post transpos. HP καὶ πολλοῖς transpos. MA
21 εἰς τὸ ante τοῦ add. 2
22 ὁμοίασις A (sed ὠμίασις m. rec. in mg.), ὦμος coni. Mang. πόνου δέ 2 σύμβουλον Α

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21 sqq. Ambrosius De Abraham I 2,5: „egressus egressus perambulavit terram usque ad Sychem“, i quod interpretatione latina dicitur humerus vel cervix, per quae praescripti operis intelligimus; siquidem et infra habemus scriptum „supposuit humerum suum ad laborandum". unde per figuram locorum id expressum advertimus, quod devotionem suam sanctus Abraham non solum studio, sed etiam efficacia probaverit fructuosa, qua ad quercum usque pervenerit. cf. o etiam II 3, 8 enim vel humerus vel cervix significatur, quod est laboris et exercitationis indicium . . . . ad naturae gratiam adiuncta exercitatiune ita fundatior et excelsior factus, ut usque ad quercum altam pertransiret — quae arbor ut alta, ita etiam robusta indicio est . . . . . Origenes, Homilia V,
1 in Numeros p. 284: humeri autem quod operum indicium teneant, in multis scripturae saepe locis ostendimus.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 221

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