Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 141

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[141] πίστις δὲ σαφεστάτη τὰ ὁρώμενα· τοῦ γὰρ συμβεβηκότος
πάθους μνημεῖόν ἐστιν ὅ τε ἀναδιδόμενος ἀεὶ καπνὸς καὶ ὃ μεταλλεύουσι ¹² θεῖον· τῆς δὲ περὶ τὴν χώραν παλαιᾶς εὐδαιμονίας ἐναργέστατον ὑπολείπεται δεῖγμα πόλις μία τῶν ὁμόρων καὶ ἡ ἐν κύκλῳ γῆ, πολυάνθρωπος μὲν ἡ πόλις, εὔχορτος δὲ καὶ εὔσταχυς καὶ συνόλως καρποφόρος ἡ γῆ, πρὸς ἔλεγχον δίκης γνώμῃ θείᾳ δικασθείσης.

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.) — 141 focus

[141] And a most evident proof of this is to be found in what is seen to this day: for the smoke which is still emitted, and the sulphur which men dig up there, are a proof of the calamity which befell that country; while a most conspicuous proof of the ancient fertility of the land is left in one city, and in the land around it. For the city is very populous, and the land is fertile in grass and in corn, and in every kind of fruit, as a constant evidence of the punishment which was inflicted by the divine will on the rest of the country.

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De Abrahamo

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2 νηφούσης ABE, νειφούσης FHP ἀδιαστάτως καὶ ἀπαύστως C ῥύμης C
3 φλογὸς BEKHP: πυρὸς CFGMA
4 καὶ δρυμοὶ BEK: δρυμοί τε ceteri δ’ ἡ] δὴ HP
5 ante τῶν add. ὁ ΒΕΚΑ δὲ] δὴ ΒΕΚ τῆς ὀρεινῆς ἡ δενδροφόρος BEK: ὁ τῆς ὀρεινῆς δενδροφόρος ceteri (v) fi στελέχων MHP, στελέγχων F αὐτῶν Κ
7 καὶ ὅσα — δημόσια om. Arm ἰδιωτικαῖς καὶ δημοσίαις F 7.
8 συγκατεπίμπραντο Α, συγκατεπίπραντο BEK: συγκατεπίμπρατο ceteri
9 κατασκευασταὶ Η
10 κατηνάλωσεν C
11 ἔκαιεν αὐτὴν transp. Κ καὶ alt. aute κατωτάτω transp. BEK Arm ἐνυπάρχουσαν om. Arm
12 ἀγονία παντελεῖ (om. εἰς) CFG ἀγωνίαν M παντελῶς Κ
13 δυνηθῆναι om. Arm
14 πῦρ om. CFG σβέννυται G, σβέννυται μόνον CF, σβέννυται μὲν HP ἢ pr. et ἢ ἐντύφεται om. Arm
15 τοῦ] ταῦτα CFG
16 μνημεῖον BEK Arm: σημεῖον ceteri post ἐστι repet. τὰ ὁρώμενα BEK ἀεὶ om. Arm

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1 sqq. Gen. 19,24
11 sqq.. Ioseph. Ant. Iud. I 104 ὑπὸ δὴ τοῦτον τὸν καιρὸν οἱ Σοδομῖται πλήθει καὶ μεγέθει χρημάτων ὑπερφρονοῦντες εἴς τε ἀνθρώπους ἦσαν ὑβρισταὶ καὶ πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἀσεβεῖς . . . (195) χαλεπήνας οὖν ἐπὶ τούτοις ὁ θεὸς ἔγνω τιμωρήσασθαι τῆς ὑπερηφανίας αὐτοὺς καὶ τήν τε πόλιν αὐτὴν κατασκάψασθαι καὶ τὴν χώραν οὕτως ἀφανίσαι, ὡς μήτε φυτόν ἔτι μήτε καρπὸν ἕτερον ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀναδοθῆναι.
14 sqq. Sap. Salom. 10,6 αὕτη δίκαιον ἐξαπολλυμένων ἀσεβῶν ἐρρύσατο φυγόντα καταβάσιον πῦρ πενταπόλεως· (7) ἧς ἔτι μαρτύριον τῆς πονηρίας καπνιζομένη καθέστηκε χέρσος καὶ ἀτελέσιν ὥραις καρποφοροῦντα φυτά. loseph. Bell. Iud. IV 483 γειτνιᾷ δ’ ἡ Σοδομῖτις αὐτῇ (scil. τῇ Ἀσφαλτίτιδι λίμνῃ), πάλαι μὲν εὐδαίμων γῆ καρπῶν θ’ ἕνεκα καὶ τῆς κατὰ πόλεις περιουσίας, νῦν δὲ κεκαυμένη πᾶσα. (484) φασὶ δ’ ὡς δι’ ἀσέβειαν οἰκητόρων κεραυνοῖς κατεφλέγη· ἔστι γοῦν ἔτι λείψανα τοῦ θείου πυρὸς καὶ πέντε μὲν πόλεων ἰδεῖν σκιάς, ἔτι δὲ κἀν τοῖς καρποῖς σποδιὰν ἀναγεννωμένην, οἲ χρόαν μὲν ἔχουσι τοῖς ἐδωδίμοις ὁμοίαν, δρεψαμένων δὲ χερσὶν εἰς καπνὸν ἀναλύονται καὶ τέφραν.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 141

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