Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 101

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[101] κατὰ μὲν γὰρ τὸν τῶν σωμάτων σπείρει μὲν τὸ ἄρρεν, γονὴν δ’ ὑποδέχεται τὸ θῆλυ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν p. 16 M. ἐν ψυχαῖς σύνοδον
ἔμπαλιν ἡ μὲν ἀρετὴ τάξιν γυναικὸς ἔχειν δοκοῦσα σπείρειν πέφυκε βουλὰς ἀγαθὰς καὶ λόγους σπουδαίους καὶ βιωφελεστάτων εἰσηγήσεις δογμάτων, ὁ δὲ λογισμὸς εἰς τὴν ἀνδρὸς χώραν τάττεσθαι νομισθεὶς τὰς ἱεροπρεπεῖς καὶ θείας ὑποδέχεται σποράς· ἢ μήποτε τὸ λεχθὲν ἔψευσται δι’ ἀπάτην ¹ ὀνομάτων, ἐπειδήπερ ὁ μὲν νοῦς ἄρρενος ἡ δ’ ἀρετὴ θήλεος μετέχει χαρακτῆρος ἐν φωναῖς.

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

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

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.) — 101 focus

[101] for in the marriage of the bodies it is the male partner which sows the seed and the female which receives it, but in the union which takes place with regard to the soul it is quite the contrary, and it is virtue which appears to be there in the place of the woman, which sows good counsels, and virtuous speeches, and expositions of doctrines profitable to life; but the reason which is considered to be classed in the light of the man receives the sacred and divine seed, unless, indeed, there is any error in the names usually given; for certainly, in the grammatical view of the words, the word reason is masculine, and the word virtue has a feminine character.

Notes on the current edition

De Abrahamo

1.
1 μεθ’ ἡμέρας A καὶ νύκτωρ om. Α νύκτας C παραπέλαυσε ΒΚMΑ, παραπέλευσε Ε: παραπήλαυσε ceteri
2 καὶ σύμπας ΒΕΚ: καὶ om. ceteri συμπάσας C ὁ οἶκος αὐτῶ BEKArm: αὐτῶ ὁ οἶκος ceteri; αὐτοῦ coni. Μang. προνομία F
3 αἰνεῖν GFG οὐχὶ BE
4 ἀγνία M
5 διασώζεται ΒΕΚ Arm: διεσώζετο ceteri δ’ BEK καὶ εὐσέβειαν ὁ θεὸς ΒΕΚ Arm: ὁ θεὸς καὶ εὐσέβειαν transp. ceteri
6 ἐπιδείξασθαι BEK: ἐπιδείκνυσθαι ceteri ἀνύβριστον] ἀκίνδυνον F
7 οὕπω ΒΕΚ: οὐδέπω ceteri διαφθαρῆναι τὸν γάμον ΒΕΚ Arm: τὸν γάμον διαφθαρῆναι transp. ceteri γάμον #x003E; coni. Wendl. coll. 21,23 ὃς om. Turn. ὀλίγων BEK Arm: om. ceteri
9 παντὸς ΒΕΚ: ἅπαντος ceteri τὴν ἱερωσύνην P
11 post καὶ add. ἀπὸ P
12 τόπον] τύπον H2L (Turn.) συμβουλικῶς E
16 εἶναι καὶ ἡγεμονικώτερον om. CFG ὃν] ὧν A
17 ἡδονὴ A ἔλαβεν Arm ὃν] ὧν Α
18 ἐναντιότατοι EKF δ’ BEK
20 γονὴν δ’ ὑποδέχεται BEK Arm: γονήν, ὑποδέχεται δὲ ceteri
21 ἔχειν γυναικὸς transp. HP συμβουλὰς ΒΚ
22 καὶ λόγους σπουδαίους om. Arm
23 ἀνδρῶν Κ
24 καὶ θείας om. Arm ἢ] ἡ BP

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 101

ed. Leopold Cohn

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