Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 258

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[258] 52 τῆς δὲ τετάρτης ὃ νῦν σκοποῦμεν· „περὶ δὲ ἡλίου δυσμὰς ἔκστασις ἐπέπεσεν τῷ Ἀβραάμ“· ἐνθουσιῶντος
καὶ θεοφορήτου τὸ πάθος. ἀλλ’ οὐχὶ τοῦτο μόνον διασυνίστησιν αὐτὸν προφήτην, ἀλλὰ καὶ γράμμα ῥητὸν ἐστηλιτευμένον ἐν ἱεραῖς βίβλοις, ἡνίκα τις ἐπεχείρησε τὴν ἐκ φύσεως ἄρχουσαν ἀρετήν, Σάρραν, αὐτοῦ διοικίζειν, ὡς οὐκ ἴδιον σοφοῦ καὶ μόνου κτῆμα, ἀλλὰ παντὸς τοῦ φρόνησιν ἐπιμορφάζοντος. „ἀπόδος“ γάρ φησι „τὴν γυναῖκα τῷ
ἀνθρώπῳ, ὅτι προφήτης ἐστὶ καὶ προσεύξεται περὶ σοῦ, καὶ ζήσεις“ (Gen. 20,7).

Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 258 focus

An instance of the fourth kind of trance is the one which we are now considering: "And about the setting of the sun a trance fell upon Abraham," he being thrown into a state of enthusiasm and inspired by the Deity. But this is not the only thing which shows him to have been a prophet, but also the express words which are engraven in the sacred scriptures ¹²³ as on a pillar. When some one endeavoured to separate Sarah, that is, the virtue which is derived from nature, from him, as if she had not been the peculiar property of the wise man alone, but had also belonged to every one who made any pretence to wisdom, God said, "Give the man back his wife, because he is a prophet, and he will pray for thee, and thou shalt live;" ⁴

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