Philo Judaeus, Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit, ed. Paul Wendland, 277

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[277] μετὰ δὲ τὸ „ἀπελεύσῃ“ γέγραπται τὸ „πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας σου“· ποίους πατέρας, ἄξιον σκέψασθαι. τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ἐν τῇ Χαλδαίων χώρᾳ βεβιωκότας, οἷς
μόνοις ἐχρήσατο συγγενέσιν, οὐκ ἂν λέγοι, διὰ τὸ χρησμῷ τῶν ἀφ’ αἵματος ἁπάντων διῳκίσθαι. „εἶπε“ γάρ φησι „κύριος τῷ Ἀβραάμ· ἄπελθε ἐκ τῆς γῆς σου καὶ ἐκ τῆς συγγενείας σου καὶ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου εἰς τὴν γῆν ἥν σοι δείξω· καὶ ποιήσω σε εἰς ἔθνος μέγα“ (Gen. 12,1.2).

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.) — 277 focus

[277] And after the words, "Thou shalt depart," he adds, "to thy fathers." It is here worth while to consider what kind of fathers is meant; for God can never mean those who had passed their lives in the country of the Chaldaeans, among whom alone he had lived as being his relations, because he had been commanded by a sacred oracle to depart from those who were his kinsmen by blood. For, says the historian, "The Lord said unto Abraham, Depart from out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, to a land which I will show thee; and I will ¹ make thee into a great nation." ²

Philo Judaeus Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit 277

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