Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 48

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[48] ἔστι δ’ ὅπου τὰ ἀκουστὰ τῶν ὁρατῶν καὶ ἀκοὴν ὁράσεως διακρίνει λέγων· „φωνὴν ῥημάτων ὑμεῖς ἠκούσατε, καὶ ὁμοίωμα οὐκ εἴδετε ἀλλ’ ἢ φωνήν“ (Deut. 4, 12), ἄγαν περιττῶς· τὴν μὲν γὰρ εἰς ὄνομα καὶ ῥῆμα καὶ συνόλως τὰ τοῦ
λόγου μέρη τεμνομένην ἀκουστὴν εἰκότως εἶπεν — ὑπὸ γὰρ ἀκοῆς ¹² δοκιμάζεται —, τὴν δὲ μὴ ῥημάτων μηδ’ ὀνομάτων ἀλλὰ θεοῦ φωνήν, ὁρωμένην τῷ τῆς ψυχῆς ὄμματι, ὁρατὴν δεόντως εἰσάγει.

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.) — 48 focus

[48] But there are passages where he distinguishes between what is heard and what is seen, and between the sense of seeing and that of hearing, as where he says, "Ye heard the sound of the words, but ye saw no similitude, only ye heard a voice;" ¹ speaking here with excessive precision; for the discourse which was divided into nouns and verbs, and in short into all the different parts of speech, he has very appropriately spoken of as something to be heard; for in fact that is examined by the sense of hearing; but that which has nothing to do with either nouns or verbs, but is the voice of God, and seen by the eye of the soul, he very properly represents as visible;

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 Ἀβραὰμ AH Mωσεῖ]AHP, Μώση M
7 alterum ἕτερος HP: om. MA
8 ἀσκητὴς A
9 κτιστά. κτἰσασθαιΑ τὰ scripsi: τὰς codd., τῆς v
11 ἔστι δ’ scripsi : ἐπὶ codd., εἴη δ’ v αὐτὸ μόνον Cohn: αὐτῶ μόνω codd., ἄν μόνῳ v καθαρωτάτῳ] ὁρατικωτάτῳ coni. Mang. καὶ ὀξυωπεστάτῳ om. Α
10 ἀμείνω Α
14 λογικῶς M, λογικός Α
15 τοῦ om. Α
19 ἀδιαφόρου A

2.
15 sqq. Clemens, Strom. VI §34 p. 756 P: θεῷ δὲ τῷ παντοκράτορι καὶ μηδενὸς ὄντος ὑποκειμένου φωνὴν καὶ φαντασίαν ἐγγεννῆσαι ἀκοῇ δυνατόν..... „φωνὴν ῥημάτων ὑμεῖς ἠκούετε καὶ ὁμοίωμα οὐκ ετῃετε„. ὁρᾷς, ὅπως ἡ κυριακὴ φωνὴ λόγος ἀσχημ̔ ἱστὸς, ἡ τοῦ λόγου δύνμις ῥῆμα κυρίου φωτεινὸν .... Origenes Contra Celsum VI
62 p. 680: ἀληθῶς γὰρ οὐκ ἔσται τῷ θεῷ φωνή, εἴπερ ἐστὶν ἡ φωνὴ ἀὴρ πεπληγμένος ἥ πληγὴ ἀέρος . . . ἄλλ᾿ ἡ λεγομένη φωνὴ θεοῦ, ὡς θεοῦ φωνή, ὁρᾶσθαι λέγεται ὑπὸ τ(υ λαοῦ ἐν τῷ „πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἑώρα τὴν φωνὴν τοῦ Seou"’ ... cf. II
72 p. 441.

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