Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 102

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[102] εἰ δέ τις τὰς ἐπισκιαζούσας κλήσεις ἀπαμφιάσας γυμνὰ τὰ πράγματα βουληθείη καθαρῶς ἰδεῖν, εἴσεται διότι ἄρρεν μέν ἐστιν ἡ ἀρετὴ φύσει, παρόσον κινεῖ καὶ διατίθησι καὶ καλὰς ἐννοίας καλῶν πράξεων καὶ λόγων ὑπηχεῖ, θῆλυ δὲ ὁ λογισμὸς κινούμενος καὶ παιδευόμενος
καὶ ὠφελούμενος καὶ συνόλως ἐν τῷ πάσχειν ἐξεταζόμενος, καὶ τὸ πάθος

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.) — 102 focus

[102] But if any one, discarding the considerations of the names which tend to throw darkness over the subject, chooses to look at the plain facts without any disguise, he will know that virtue is masculine by nature, inasmuch as it puts things in motion, and arranges them, and suggests good conceptions of noble actions and speeches; but reason is feminine, inasmuch as it is put in motion by another, and is instructed and benefited, and, in short, is altogether the patient, as its passive state is its only safety.

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