Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 66

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[66] ἔνιοι δὲ προσυπερβάλλοντες οὐ μόνον τῷ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἐχρήσαντο γένει, ἀλλὰ
¹ καὶ τὸ ἀδελφὸν αὐτῇ πάθος, τὸν θυμόν, προσεκτήσαντο, βουληθέντες ὅλον τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἄλογον ἐκζωπυρῆσαι μέρος, τὸν δὲ νοῦν διαφθεῖραι· τὸ γὰρ εἰρημένον λόγῳ μὲν ἐπὶ ὄφεως, ἔργῳ δὲ ἐπὶ παντὸς ἀλόγου καὶ φιλοπαθοῦς ἀνθρώπου χρησμὸς ὡς ἀληθῶς ἐστι θεῖος· „ἐπὶ τῷ στήθει
καὶ τῇ κοιλίᾳ πορεύσῃ“ (Gen. 3, 14)· περὶ μὲν γὰρ τὰ στέρνα ὁ θυμός, τὸ δὲ ἐπιθυμίας εἶδος ἐν κοιλίᾳ.

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.) — 66 focus

[66] But some go far beyond these persons in wickedness, not only indulge in every description of desire, but also acquire that passion which is akin to desire, namely, anger, wishing to excite the whole of the irrational part of the soul and to destroy the mind. For what has been said in words, indeed, is applicable to the serpent, but in reality it is meant to apply to every man who is irrational and a slave to his passions, being truly a divine oracle, "Upon thy breast and upon thy belly shalt thou go;" ¹ for anger has its abode about the breast, and the seat of desire is in the belly.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 κατὰ] καὶ τὰ L
3 post ἀδελφαὶ vid. add. κακίαι vel κῆρες
4 ὁ ὀρθὸς H2: ὀρθὸς ὁ ceteri
6 ἀγαθῶν ι vel διὸ ι pro ᾦ conicio ᾦ] ἐφ’ ᾧ vel Mang.
8 ὀλίγον Α οὖν om. Α
9 6 om. Α
15 τῶ MH2: τῶν AH1P
20 πολυπληθῆ (sic!) φησι MA: φησί, πολυπληθεῖ HP ἐν scripsi: ἐπὶ codd.
21 ἕρπουσιν addidi βδέλυγμά conicio
22 ἀλλ’] ἄρ’ conicio μὴ MA: ἡ H2, om. H1P ἀλλὰ MAP: ἀλλ’ ἡ H
23 τῆς γῆς coni. Mang. τὰ τοῦ σώματος HP 23.
24 πολιχνέύουσα H
26 δὲ HP
27 ἣν γῆν HP τὸ om. A

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