Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 10

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[10] καθάπερ γὰρ ποιητὴς
Ὅμηρος, μυρίων ποιητῶν ὄντων, κατ’ ἐξοχὴν λέγεται, καὶ τὸ μέλαν ᾧ γράφομεν, καίτοι παντὸς ὃ μὴ λευκόν ἐστι μέλανος ὄντος, καὶ ἄρχων Ἀθήνῃσιν ὁ ἐπώνυμος καὶ τῶν ἐννέα ἀρχόντων ἄριστος, ἀφ’ οὗ οἱ χρόνοι καταριθμοῦνται, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ τὸν ἐλπίδι χρώμενον „ἄνθρωπον“ κατ’ ἐξοχὴν ὠνόμασε τὰ πλήθη τῶν ἄλλων ἀφησυχάσας ὡς οὐκ ἀξίων ¹ τῆς αὐτῆς προσρήσεως ἐπιλαχεῖν.

De Abrahamo. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Abrahamo (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 4. Cohn, Leonard, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1902.)

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On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, Volume 2. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 10 focus

[10] for, as the poet Homer, though the number of poets is beyond all calculation, is called "the poet" by way of distinction, and as the black [ink] with which we write is called "the black," though in point of fact everything which is not white is black; and as that archon at Athens is especially called "the archon," who is the archon eponymus and the chief of the nine archons, from whom the chronology is dated; so in the same manner the sacred historian calls him who indulges in hope, "a man," by way of pre-eminence, passing over in silence the rest of the multitude of human beings, as not being worthy to receive the same appellation.

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De Abrahamo

1.
2 ἀνατέμνει] ἀναφαίνει CF ἀνατέμνει καὶ oiu. Arin
4 post ἐραστὴν add. ἐνὼς M ἄνθρωπον om BE
6 τἀγαθὰ F
7 δῆλον ὅτι CBEK: δηλονότι ceteri οὐκ ΒΕ Arm: οὐδ’ ceteri
8 τοῦ οἰκειοτάτου P
9 ψυχῆς om. ΒΕ καὶ om. Arm
10 εὐέλπιστον BE προσειπών BEK οὗτος ἤλπισεν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι· αὕτη ἡ βίβλος γενέσεως ἀνθρώπων C adnot. in marg.
13 καθαρωτέρου BE
14 διειθισμένου Α ὄντως] οὗτος Α λογικῶν BE ὁ ποιητὴς MAIIP
15 ποιητῶν ὄντων BEK: ὄντων ποιητῶν ceteri κατ’ ἐξοχὴν om. G 15.
16 καὶ μέλαν τὸ ᾧ conicio
16 ᾧ] ὃ BEK, ὧ ὃ P πάντως BEMA μέλαν ὄντως BEMA 16—18 καὶ ὄρχων — καταριθμοῦνται ἁ om. Arm
17 ὁ ἄριστος BEKF
19 ὠνόμασεν CE ἐφυσηχάσας (sic) C, ἐφησυχάσας MAII ἀξίους BE
3 sqq. Euseb. Pr. Ev. VII 8,5 . . . παρ’ ὃ καὶ πρῶτος ἀληθὴς ἄνθρωπος χρηματίσαι παρ’ Ἑβραίοις ἀναγέγραπται· κέκληται δ’ οὖν (γοῦν?) Ἐνώς, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἀληθὴς εὐθυβόλῳ προσωνυμία. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄλλον φασὶν ἀληθῆ προσήκειν ἡγεῖσθαι καὶ ὀνομάζειν ἄνθρωπον ἡ τὸν θεοῦ γνώσεως καὶ εὐσεβείας ἐπήβολον, τὸν ἀληθῶς γνωστικὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ εὐσεβῆ, (6) ὅτι δὴ τοὺς μὴ τοιούτους, θρεμμάτων κατ’ οὐδὲν ἀλόγων διαφέροντας, οἷα ἐπὶ γαστέρα καὶ ἡδονὴν πρηνεῖς καταβεβλημένους, θῆρας μᾶλλον ἡ ἀνθρώπους ἡ Ἑβραίων ἀποκαλεῖν διδάσκει γραφὴ κυριολεκτεῖν εἰθισμένη τὰς προσηγορίας .... (11) τοιόσδε μὲν οὖν ὁ παρ’ ‘Eβραίοις εἰσῆκται πρῶτος καὶ ἀληθὴς ἄνθρωπος ... ὁ θεοφιλῶν πρώτιστος, ὃς ἤλπισεν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ.

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