Philo Judaeus De Fuga Et Inventione 60

ed. Paul Wendland

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[60] ζώντων γὰρ τὸ ἔργον. Κάιν δ’ ὁ ἐναγὴς καὶ ἀδελφοκτόνος οὐδαμοῦ τῆς νομοθεσίας ἀποθνῄσκων εὑρίσκεται, ἀλλὰ καὶ λόγιόν ἐστιν ἐπ’ αὐτῷ χρησθὲν
τοιοῦτον· „ἔθετο κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ Κάιν σημεῖον, τοῦ μὴ ἀνελεῖν αὐτὸν πάντα τὸν εὑρίσκοντα“ (Gen. 4, 15). διὰ τί;

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.) — 60 focus

[60] for that is the work of the living; but Cain, that shameless man, that fratricide, is no where spoken of in the law as dying; but there is an oracle delivered respecting him in such words as these: "The Lord God put a mark upon Cain, as a sign that no one who found him should kill him." ¹ Why so?

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