Philo Judaeus, De Fuga Et Inventione, ed. Paul Wendland, 49

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[49] πάλιν καὶ οὗτος οὐ Σύρον εἶπε τὸν Λάβαν, ἀλλὰ Ῥεβέκκας ἀδελφόν, μέλλοντα κατ’ ἐπιγαμίαν τῷ ἀσκητῇ κῆδος συνάπτειν. „ἀπόδραθι οὖν εἰς τὴν Μεσοποταμίαν,“ τουτέστιν εἰς μέσον τὸν χειμάρρουν ποταμὸν τοῦ βίου, καὶ μὴ ἐπικλυσθεὶς ἐγκαταποθῇς, στηριχθεὶς δὲ
¹ βιαιοτάτην ἄνωθεν καὶ ἑκατέρωθεν καὶ πανταχόθεν ἐπικυματίζουσαν φορὰν τῶν πραγμάτων σθεναρῶς ἀπώθει.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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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.) — 49 focus

[49] Again, he also forbears to speak of Laban as a Syrian, but he calls him Rebekkah’s brother, who is about to form a connection with the practiser of virtue by means of intermarriage. Flee, therefore, into Mesopotamia, that is to say, into the middle of the rapid torrent of life, and take care not to be washed away and swollowed up by its whirlpools, but standing firmly, vigorously repel the violent, impetuous course of affairs which overflows and rushes upon thee from above, from both sides, and from every quarter;

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De fuga et inventione

1.
1 αἰσθήσεως conicio
4 γέγονεν H
5 νευροσπαθῶν H1
6 ἀοράτων L δὲ ss. H2
7 ἀκριβῶς ὄντως τὰς G δόξας H1
9 ἐφαρμόσων G
10 τούτῳ om. Turn.
11 ἀσάλευτον conicio 12.
13 ἀνένδοτος Mang.: ἀνενδοίαστος G, ἀνενδύαστος H
15 Βαιθουὴλ codil. τοὐ om. G
16 σεαυτῷ ἐκεῖθεν conicio; v. LXX et de post. Caini §
76 18 Ῥεβέκας Η1
20 ἐπικλυσθεὶς H1: ἐπικλυσθῆς GH2 ἐνκαταποθῆς (sic) G: ἐγκαταποθείς Η

Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 49

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