Philo Judaeus, De Fuga Et Inventione, ed. Paul Wendland, 51

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[51] πατέρα δὲ τῆς Ῥεβέκκας Βαθουὴλ εἶπε. καὶ πῶς ἥ γε θυγάτηρ τοῦ θεοῦ, σοφία, λέγοιτ’ ἂν ἐνδίκως εἶναι πατήρ; ἢ διότι ὄνομα μὲν θῆλυ σοφίας ἐστίν,
ἄρρεν δὲ ἡ φύσις; καὶ γὰρ αἱ ἀρεταὶ πᾶσαι προσρήσεις μὲν ἔχουσι γυναικῶν, δυνάμεις δὲ καὶ πράξεις ἀνδρῶν τελειοτάτων· ἐπειδὴ τὸ μετὰ τὸν θεόν, κἂν εἰ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων πρεσβύτατον εἴη, δευτέραν ἔχον χώραν θῆλυ ὡς ἂν παρὰ ἄρρεν τὸ τὰ ὅλα ποιοῦν ἐλέχθη κατὰ τὴν πρὸς τἄλλα ὁμοιότητα· ἀεὶ γὰρ προνομίαν τοῦ ἄρρενος ἔχοντος ἐνδεῖ καὶ
ὑστερίζει τὸ θῆλυ.

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.) — 51 focus

[51] And he calls Bethuel the father of Rebekkah. How, then, can the daughter of God, namely, wisdom, be properly called a father? is it because the name indeed of wisdom is feminine but the sex masculine? For indeed all the virtues bear the names of women, but have the powers and actions of most full-grown men, since whatever is subsequent to God, even if it be the most ancient of all other things, still has only the second place when compared with that omnipotent Being, and appears not so much masculine as feminine, in accordance with its likeness to the other creatures; for as the male always has the precedence, the female falls short, and is inferior in rank.

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