Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 46

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[46] ἀλλὰ πρῶτον ἐκεῖνό σοι βούλεται παραστῆσαι, ὅτι ἕτερος νηπίων καὶ ἕτερος τελείων χῶρός ἐστιν, ὁ μὲν ὀνομαζόμενος ἄσκησις, ὁ δὲ καλούμενος σοφία, ἔπειτα ὅτι τὰ κάλλιστα τῶν ἐν τῇ φύσει ὁρατὰ μᾶλλόν ἐστιν ἢ κτητά· κτήσασθαι μὲν γὰρ τὰ θειοτέρας
μοίρας λαχόντα πῶς ἔνεστιν; ἰδεῖν δ’ οὐκ ἀδύνατον, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ἅπασιν, ἔστι δ’ αὐτὸ μόνον τῷ καθαρωτάτῳ καὶ ὀξυωπεστάτῳ γένει, ᾧ τὰ ἴδια ἐπιδεικνύμενος ὁ τῶν ὅλων πατὴρ ἔργα μεγίστην πασῶν χαρίζεται δωρεάν.

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.) — 46 focus

[46] But first of all, God wishes to make it understood by you that there is one place for infants and another for full-grown men, the one being called practise and the other wisdom; and secondly, that the most beautiful of all the things in nature are rather such as can be seen than such as can be acquired; for how can it be possible ¹²³ to acquire possession of those things which are endowed in the same degree with the diviner attributes? But it is not impossible to see them, though it may not be given to all men to do so, for this may be permitted only to the purest and most acute-sighted race, to whom the father of the universe, when he displays his own works, is giving the greatest of all gifts.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 46

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