Philo Judaeus De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia 109

ed. Paul Wendland

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[109] τοῦτο καὶ Ἀβραὰμ ὁ σοφὸς ἱκετεύει, μελλούσης ἐμπίπρασθαι λόγῳ μὲν τῆς Σοδομίτιδος γῆς, ἔργῳ δὲ τῆς ἐστειρωμένης τὰ καλὰ καὶ τυφλῆς τὸν λογισμὸν ψυχῆς, ἵν’, ἐὰν εὑρεθῇ τὸ δικαιοσύνης μνημεῖον, ἡ δεκάς, ἐν αὐτῇ, τύχῃ τινὸς ἀμνηστίας (Gen. 18, 32)· ἄρχεται μὲν οὖν τῆς ἱκεσίας ἀπὸ τοῦ
τῆς ἀφέσεως ἀριθμοῦ, πεντηκοντάδος, λήγει δὲ εἰς δεκάδα, τὴν τελευταίαν

De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On the Meeting for the sake of seeking Instruction First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 109 focus

[109] This is what the wise Abraham supplicates for, when that which in word indeed is the land of Sodom, but in real fact is the soul made barren of all good things and blinded as to its reason, is about to be burnt up, in order that if the memorial of justice, namely the tenth ¹ part be found in it, it may obtain a sort of amnesty. Therefore he begins his supplication with a prayer for pardon, connected with the number fifty, and terminates with the number ten, the lowest number for whose deliverance he can dare to entreat.

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