Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 26

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[26] 6 καὶ τί θαυμάζομεν, εἰ τὸν ὑπηγμένον κράτει πάθους ἀλόγου προτρέπει
μὴ ἐνδιδόναι μηδὲ τῇ ῥύμῃ τῆς ἐκείνου φορᾶς κατασυρῆναι, βιάσασθαι δὲ ἀντισχόντα κἄν, εἰ μὴ δύναιτο, ἀποδρᾶναι; δευτέρα γὰρ ἔφοδος εἰς σωτηρίαν τοῖς ἀμύνεσθαι μὴ δυναμένοις δρασμός ἐστιν· ὁπότε ¹ καὶ τὸν ἀγωνιστὴν φύσει καὶ μηδέποτε παθῶν δοῦλον γεγενημένον, ἀεὶ δὲ ἀθλοῦντα τοὺς πρὸς ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἄθλους, οὐκ ἐᾷ μέχρι παντὸς τοῖς παλαίσμασι χρήσασθαι, μή ποτε τῷ συνεχεῖ τῆς εἰς ταὐτὸ συνόδου χαλεπὴν ἀπ’ ἐκείνων κῆρα ἀναμάξηται· πολλοὶ γὰρ ἤδη καὶ ἀντιπάλου κακίας ἐγένοντο μιμηταί, ὡς ἀρετῆς ἔμπαλιν ἕτεροι.

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.) — 26 focus

And why do we wonder if he exhorts the man who is led away by the force of unreasonable passions, neither to yield, nor to allow himself to be carried away by the impetuosity of its onward course, but to exert all his strength, to resist, and if he is unable to resist effectually, then to flee. For the second advance towards safety on the part of those who are unable to make a good resistance is flight. When the occasion does not permit the man who is a combatant by nature, and who has never been a slave of the passions, but who is always undergoing the toil of resistance to every separate one of them, to put forth all his powers of antagonism at all times, lest from the continuance of his struggles against them he may gradually contract a painful infection from them; for there ¹² have before now been many instances of men having become imitators of the wickedness to which they were previously antagonists, as, on the other hand, some opposers of virtue have become copiers of that.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 θαυμαστώσας Α ἦν om. Η μέγα] μέρος Η
4 ἐλθόντος L
5 ἀδελφοῖς MA: ἀνθρώποις HP
6 οἰομένοις Η
9 τῶν om. Α
10 τὸ aate Αἴγυπτον fort. add. 11.
12 ἀνέχεσθαι, ἐνθάπεσθαι, παρέπεσθαι Mang.: ανέχεται, ἐνθάπτεται, παρέπεται codd.
11 οὐδὲν θάπτεται Α
12 κεχωρηκὼς coni. Mang. vel ὀστᾶ add.
13 οὗτος καὶ τιθηνὸς HP
15 διακρίνει Cohn: διακρίνεται codd. 15.
16 παρελθόντα, fortasse servato διακρίνεται legendum παρ’ ἐλπίδα (cf. lin. 23), πρλυNντα coni. Mang. 16.
17 ἀφαυανθέντα coni. Mang.
17 προτρέπει HP
18 μητέρα Αἴγυπτον probahiliter coni. Mang. 19—21 ὑπερβάλλοντας τάχει χρώμενος (corr. ex χρωμένους) ὁ νοῦς τήν τε L (om. χρωμένους — συντόνῳ)
19 δεῖν om. H
20 δ’ ἔστιν Α ἶνα M, ἣν L
21 ἀνενδότῳ Mang.
22 ποιεῖται L καὶ] εἰς coni. Mang.
23 εὐχαριστείαν Η ἐξειλατο Α
26 εἰ μὴ κρατεῖν δύναιτο vel εἰ μὴ ἀμύναιτο conicio

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 26

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