Philo Judaeus De Congressu Eruditionis Gratia 54

ed. Paul Wendland

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[54] 11 παλλακὰς μέντοι [ἢ] δόξας καὶ δόγματα προσίενται καὶ οἱ φαῦλοι. φησὶ γοῦν ὅτι Θαμνά, ἡ παλλακὴ Ἐλιφὰς τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἠσαῦ, ἔτεκε τῷ Ἐλιφὰς τὸν Ἀμαλήκ (Gen. 36, 12). ὢ τῆς τοῦ ἀπογόνου λαμπρᾶς δυσγενείας· ὄψει δὲ αὐτοῦ
τὴν δυσγένειαν, ἐὰν ἀποστὰς τοῦ περὶ ἀνθρώπων ταῦτα εἰρῆσθαι νομίζειν τὴν ψυχὴν ὥσπερ ἐξ ἀνατομῆς ἐπισκέπτῃ.

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.) — 54 focus

Now the wicked also have a desire for concubines, that is, for vain opinions and doctrines; accordingly Moses tells us that Thimna, the concubine of Eliphah the son of Esau, bore Amalek to Eliphah. ¹ Alas, for the eminent ignobleness of the descendant! And you will see this ignobleness the more clearly, if you abandon the idea that this expression is used about a man, and rather consider the soul, with a kind of anatomical dissection.

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