Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 53

ed. Paul Wendland

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[53] 10 Οὐκοῦν μετὰ τὴν ἀπόλειψιν τῶν θνητῶν πρώτην ὁ θεὸς χαρίζεται τῇ ψυχῇ δωρεάν, ὡς ἔφην, ἐπίδειξιν καὶ θεωρίαν τῶν ἀθανάτων, δευτέραν δὲ τὴν εἰς πλῆθος ὁμοῦ καὶ μέγεθος τῶν ἀρετῆς δογμάτων ἐπίδοσιν· λέγει γάρ· „καὶ ποιήσω σε εἰς ἔθνος μέγα“, διὰ
μὲν τοῦ ἔθνους τὸ πλῆθος, διὰ δὲ τοῦ μεγάλου τὴν πρὸς τὸ ἄμεινον αὔξησιν παραλαμβάνων.

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.) — 53 focus

Therefore, after having left all mortal things, God, as I have said before, gives, as his first gift to the soul, an exhibition and an opportunity of contemplating mortal things: and in the second place he gives it an improvement in the doctrines of virtue, in respect both of their numbers and of their importance; for he says, "And I will make thee into a mighty nation," using this expression with reference to the multitude of the nation, and with reference to the increase and improvement of what was already great;

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