Philo Judaeus, De Fuga Et Inventione, ed. Paul Wendland, 209

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[209] τὸν δὲ γεννηθέντα τρόπον χαρακτηρίζει διά τε τοῦ λέγειν ἀγροῖκον ἔσεσθαι, ὡς ἂν ἀγροικόσοφον, μήπω τῆς τιθασοῦ καὶ πολιτικῆς ὄντως μοίρας ἠξιωμένον — αὕτη δέ ἐστιν ἀρετή, δι’ ἧς πέφυκεν ἡμεροῦσθαι
τὸ ἦθος —, καὶ διὰ τοῦ φάσκειν· „αἱ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ πάντας καὶ αἱ χεῖρες πάντων ἐπ’ αὐτόν“ (ibid. 12)· σοφιστοῦ γὰρ βούλημα τοῦτο τὸ λίαν σκεπτικὸν ἐπιμορφάζοντος καὶ λόγοις χαίροντος ἐριστικοῖς.

De Fuga Et Inventione. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

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De Fuga Et Inventione (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 3. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1898.)

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On Fugitives First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 209 focus

[209] But the angel describes the characteristics of the disposition which is born of Hagar, by saying that he will be a rude man; as if he had said that he would be a man wise about rude matters, and not as yet thought worthy of that which is the truly divine and political portion of life: and this is virtue, by means of which it is the nature of the moral character to be humanised. And by his saying, "His hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him," he means to describe the design and plan of life of a sophist, who professes an over-curious scepticism, and who rejoices in disputatious arguments.

Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 209

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