Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 35

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[35] ἔστι δὲ ὅτε κενὸς ἐλθὼν
πλήρης ἐξαίφνης ἐγενόμην ἐπινιφομένων καὶ σπειρομένων ἄνωθεν ἀφανῶς τῶν ἐνθυμημάτων, ὡς ὑπὸ κατοχῆς ἐνθέου κορυβαντιᾶν καὶ πάντα ἀγνοεῖν, τὸν τόπον, τοὺς παρόντας, ἐμαυτόν, τὰ λεγόμενα, τὰ γραφόμενα. σχεδὸν γὰρ ἑρμηνεύει εὕρεσιν, φωτὸς ἀπόλαυσιν, ὀξυδερκεστάτην ὄψιν, ἐνάργειαν τῶν πραγμάτων ἀριδηλοτάτην, οἵα γένοιτ’ ἂν δι’ ὀφθαλμῶν
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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.) — 35 focus

[35] and sometimes when I have come to my work empty I have suddenly become full, ideas being, in an invisible manner, showered upon me, and implanted in me from on high; so that, through the influence of divine inspiration, I have become greatly excited, and have known neither the place in which I was nor those who were present, nor myself, nor what I was saying, nor what I was writing; for then I have been conscious of a richness of interpretation, an enjoyment of light, a most penetrating sight, a most manifest energy in all that was to be done, having such an effect on my mind as the clearest ocular demonstration would have on the eyes.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 35

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