Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 129

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[129] τὰ δὲ ἆθλα τοῖς p. 20 M. μὲν ἐμὲ τιμῶσι δι’ ἐμὲ κείσεται φίλια, τοῖς δὲ διὰ τὰς χρείας φίλια μὲν οὔ, τὸ δὲ μὴ ἀλλοτρίοις νομίζεσθαι· δέχομαι γὰρ καὶ τὸν τῆς εὐεργέτιδός μου δυνάμεως βουλόμενον μεταλαχεῖν εἰς μετουσίαν ἀγαθῶν καὶ τὸν φόβῳ τὴν ἡγεμονικὴν καὶ δεσποτικὴν
ἱλασκόμενον ἐξουσίαν εἰς ἀποτροπὴν κολάσεως· οὐ γὰρ ἀγνοῶ, διότι πρὸς τῷ χείρους μὴ γίγνεσθαι καὶ βελτίους ἔσονται τῷ συνεχεῖ τῆς θεραπείας εἱλικρινῆ καὶ καθαρὰν εὐσέβειαν ἀσκήσαντες.

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.) — 129 focus

[129] But the rewards which shall be laid up for those who honour me for my own sake are rewards of affection; while those which are given to those who do so with a view to their own advantage are not given through affection, but because they are not looked upon as aliens. For I receive him who wishes to be a partaker of my beneficent power to a participation in my good things, and him who out of fear seeks to propitiate my governing and despotic power, I receive so far as to avert punishment from him. For I am not unaware that, in addition to these men not becoming worse, they will become better, by gradually arriving at a sincere and pure piety by their constant perseverance in serving me.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 129

ed. Leopold Cohn

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