Philo Judaeus, De Migratione Abrahami, ed. Paul Wendland, 95

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[95] μὲν οὖν ἔοικε τοῖς φύσει, ταῦτα δὲ τοῖς θέσει νομίμοις. 17 ἄγαμαι καὶ τῆς παναρέτου Λείας, ἥτις ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀσὴρ γενέσεως, ὅς ἐστι τοῦ ¹ αἰσθητοῦ καὶ νόθου σύμβολον πλούτου, φησί· „μακαρία ἐγώ, ὅτι μακαριοῦσί με αἱ γυναῖκες“ (Gen. 30, 13)· στοχάζεται γὰρ ὑπολήψεως ἐπιεικοῦς, δικαιοῦσα μὴ μόνον ὑπὸ ἀρρένων καὶ ἀνδρείων ὡς ἀληθῶς λόγων ἐπαινεῖσθαι, παρ’ οἷς ἡ ἀλώβητος φύσις καὶ τὸ ἀληθὲς ἀδέκαστον
τετίμηται, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς τῶν θηλυτέρων, οἳ τῶν φαινομένων πάντα τρόπον ἥττηνται μηδὲν ἔξω τούτων θεωρητὸν νοῆσαι δυνάμενοι.

De Migratione Abrahami. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 95 focus

I also admire Leah, that woman endued with all virtue, who, at the birth of Asher, who is the symbol of that bastard wealth, which is perceptible by the outward senses, says, "Blessed am I, because all women shall call me happy." ¹ For she sees plainly that she will have a favourable reputation, thinking that she deserves to be praised, not only by those reasonings which are really masculine and manly, which have a nature free from all spot and stain, and which honour that which is really honest and incorrupt, but also by those more feminine reasonings which are in every respect overcome by those things which are visible, and which are unable to comprehend any object of contemplation which is beyond them.

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De migratione Abrahami

1.
1 δέ M 2.
3 μήτε κώμην om. P
3 οἰκείαν H1
4 τὴν] ἢ τὴν Α ἑαυτῆς Turn.: ἑαυτῇ Η2, ἑαυτοὺς MAPH1
5 ῥητῆς coni. Mang.
6 ἢ] οἱ Α
8 ἀγέννητον ΑΗ γεννητὸν ΑΗ
9 πῦρ ἐναύειν Mang.: πῦρ ἐναυγεῖν MAP2, πυρεναυσεῖν H(P1?) γεηπονεῖν Α
11 μὴ HP: μὴ ἐν MAL
12 τῆ ἑορτὴ M εὐφροσύνης] ἑορτῆς Α
13 ταῖς] ἔταις Η
14 ἡδονῶν 2
15 ἐμφαίνειν Α ὑπέβαλεν A
16 ἀνελάβομεν Α
17 ἀγιστίας Α ἀμελήσωμεν A
21 τούτων H2: om. ceteri
21 γνωσθήσεται HP
22 τῷ] τὸ Α
23 ὁ Ἁβραὰμ AHP
23 σοφῶ μεγάλα Α
25 καὶ] ἢ conicio
26 δόγματα Α
27 νομίμως Α
28 τὴν πανάρετον Λείαν ι Mang.

Philo Judaeus De Migratione Abrahami 95

ed. Paul Wendland

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