Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 126

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[126] ὃ δὲ λέγω,
τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν. ἄνθρωποι μὲν ἐπειδὰν αἴσθωνται κατὰ πρόφασιν ἑταιρείας προσιόντας αὐτοῖς τινας ἐπὶ θήρᾳ πλεονεξιῶν, ὑποβλέπονταί τε καὶ ἀποστρέφονται τὴν προσποίητον κολακείαν καὶ τιθασείαν αὐτῶν δεδιότες ὡς σφόδρα ἐπιζήμιον·

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.) — 126 focus

[126] My meaning in this statement is this:— Men when they perceive that, under the pretext of friendship, some persons come to them, being in reality only desirous to get what they can from them, look upon them with suspicion, and turn away from them, fearing their insincere, and flattering, and caressing behaviour, as very pernicious.

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