Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 60

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[60] διόπερ ἐν χρησμοῖς ᾄδεται· „οὐχ ὅτι πολυπληθεῖτε παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, προείλετο κύριος ὑμᾶς καὶ ἐξελέξατο — ὑμεῖς γάρ ἐστε ὀλιγοστοὶ παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη —, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὸ ἀγαπᾶν κύριον ὑμᾶσ“
(Deut. 7, 7. 8). εἰ γάρ τις βουληθείη τὸν ὄχλον μιᾶς ψυχῆς ὥσπερ ¹ κατὰ ἔθνη διανεῖμαι, πολλὰς μὲν ἂν εὕροι τάξεις ἀκοσμούσας, ὧν ἡδοναὶ ἢ ἐπιθυμίαι ἢ λῦπαι ἢ φόβοι ἢ πάλιν ἀφροσύναι καὶ ἀδικίαι καὶ αἱ τούτων συγγενεῖς καὶ ἀδελφαὶ ταξιαρχοῦσι, μίαν δὲ αὐτὸ μόνον εὖ διακεκοσμημένην, ἧς ὁ ὀρθὸς λόγος ἀφηγεῖται.

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.) — 60 focus

[60] On which account it is said in the sacred scriptures, "It is not because you are numerous beyond all the nations that the Lord has selected you above them all, and has chosen you out; for in truth you are but few in comparison of all nations, but it is because the Lord loves you;" ¹ for if any one were to choose to distribute the multitude of one soul as if according to nations, he would find a great many ranks totally destitute of all order, of which pleasures, or appetites or griefs, or fears, or again follies and iniquities, and all the other vices which are connected with or akin to them, are the leaders, and he would find but one rank alone well regulated, that namely which is under the leadership of right reason.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 γε Η2: γάρ ceteri τῶ (ex τοῦ corr.) ὄντως A ὡς om. HP1
6 προσλαμβάνειν HP
8 συνανεβλάστησεν H 9.
10 ἀρχὴ τῶν καλῶν HP
13 bis μέγα MAP: bis μέρος H
15 ἀρρωγὸς HP
16 ἐγγύτερα Α
18 ἦ v δηλονότι AHP
20 ἐπειδὴ δὲ Α 20.
21 ὑπερβαλόντως HP
21 prius τοῦ] τῶ HP
22 σταθηρῶς Α
23 λεώ (vel λαοῦ) scripsi: θεοῦ codd., del. Mang. τῷ om. L συνεγγίζον coni. Mang. ᾦ] ὁ Α
25 ἀγαθὸς Α
26 ἐν πεφυρμένῳ scripsi: ἐμπερφυρμένω Α, ἐμπερορημένῳ MHP, ἐν πεφορημένῳ v
27 πολυπληθῆτε Α
28 προείλατο Α 28.
29 προείλετο — ἔθνη om. Η
28 ὁ κύριος AH

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