Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 225

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[225] οὐ γὰρ ἐρημία γε τῶν βοηθησόντων τοῖς παρασπονδουμένοις ἐστίν, ἀλλὰ κἂν οἴωνταί τινες, οἰήσονται μόνον, ἀπελεγχθήσονται δὲ τῷ ἔργῳ ψευδοδοξοῦντες. ἔστι γάρ, ἔστιν ἡ μισοπόνηρος
καὶ ἀμείλικτος καὶ ἀδικουμένων ἀρωγὸς ἀπαραίτητος δίκη, σφάλλουσα ¹ τὰ τέλη τῶν αἰσχυνόντων ἀρετήν, ὧν πεσόντων εἰς παρθένον πάλιν ἡ δόξασα αἰσχυνθῆναι μεταβάλλει ψυχή· δόξασα δ’ εἶπον, ὅτι οὐδέποτε ἐφθείρετο· τῶν γὰρ ἀκουσίων οὐδὲν τοῦ πάσχοντος πρὸς ἀλήθειαν πάθος, ὡς οὐδὲ τοῦ μὴ ἀπὸ γνώμης ἀδικοῦντος τὸ πραττόμενον ἔργον.

De Migratione Abrahami. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 225 focus

[225] for there is never a scarcity of avengers against those who violate treaties; but even though some persons fancy there may be, they will only fancy it, and will in the reality of the fact be proved to entertain a false opinion.

For justice hates the wicked, and is implacable, and a relentless avenger of all unrighteous actions, overthrowing the ranks of those who defile virtue, and when they are overthrown, then ¹² again the soul, which before appeared to be defiled, changes and returns to its virgin state. I say, which appeared to be defiled, because, in fact, it never was defiled; for of involuntary accidents that which affects the patient is not in reality his suffering, just as what is done by a person who does wrong unintentionally, the wrong is not really his action.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 ὡς om. HP
5 βλέπον ι conicio ὄντα] ἔνδον coni.
6 τυφλὸς Α
7 ὀξυωπὴς Α ἀγαπητῶν Α προσβολῆς Mang. : προβολῆς codd.
11 τέλειον om. A καὶ om. Η2, post καὶ vocabulum excidisse videtur μὴ Τurn.: i μὴ δὲ codd. τῆς ψυχῆς HP
12 Δίνα MP διάκρισις τοῦ τὸν PH1: τοῦτον M, τοῦ τῶν H2, τὰς τῶν Α ἐναντίων ΑΗ
13 πόνου Η τοῦ et ἐπιβούλου Η2: τὸν et ἐπίβουλον ceteri
17 ἐρασταὶ conicio
21 λαθεῖν Mang. : παθεῖν codd.
22 βοηθησάντων Α
25 ἀρρωγὸς HP

2.
1 βέλη coni. Mang. παρθενείαν Η2 2.
3 οὐδὲ τότε M
3 οὐδὲ Η

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