Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 40

ed. Paul Wendland

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[40] σοφία δὲ οὐ μόνον φωτὸς τρόπον ὄργανον τοῦ ὁρᾶν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὑτὴν ὁρᾷ. αὕτη θεοῦ τὸ ἀρχέτυπον [ἡλίου] φέγγος, οὗ μίμημα καὶ εἰκὼν ἥλιος. ὁ δὲ δεικνὺς ἕκαστα ὁ μόνος ἐπιστήμων θεός· ἄνθρωποι
μὲν γὰρ τῷ δοκεῖν ἐπίστασθαι λέγονται μόνον ἐπιστήμονες· ὁ δὲ θεὸς τῷ εἶναι ἧττον ἢ πέφυκε λέγεται· νικῶνται γὰρ ὑπὸ τῶν τοῦ ὄντος δυνάμεων οἱ περὶ αὐτὸν ἅπαντες ἅπαξ λόγοι.

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.) — 40 focus

[40] but not only is wisdom like light, the instrument of seeing, but it does also behold itself. This, in God, is the light which is the archetypal model of the sun, and the sun itself is only its image and copy; and he who shows each thing is the only all-knowing being, God; for men are called knowing only because they appear to know; but God, who really does know, is spoken of, as to his knowledge, in a manner inferior to its ¹²³ real nature, for everything that is ever spoken in his praise comes short of the real power of the living God.

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