Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 147

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[147] 29 Ἡ μὲν οὖν ἐν φανερῷ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς πολλοὺς ἀπόδοσις ἥδ’ ¹ ἐστίν· ἡ δ’ ἐν ἀποκρύφῳ καὶ πρὸς ὀλίγους, ὅσοι τρόπους ψυχῆς ἐρευνῶσιν ἀλλ’ οὐ σωμάτων μορφάς, αὐτίκα λεχθήσεται. συμβολικῶς ἡ πεντάπολις αἱ ἐν ἡμῖν πέντε αἰσθήσεις εἰσί, τὰ τῶν ἡδονῶν ὄργανα, δι’ ὧν ἅπασαι μικραί τε αὖ καὶ μεγάλαι τελεσιουργοῦνται.

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.)

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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.) — 147 focus

This, then, is the open explanation which is to be given of this account, and which is to be addressed to the multitude. But there is another esoteric explanation to be reserved for the few who choose for the subjects of their investigation the dispositions of the soul, and not the forms of bodies; and this shall now be mentioned. The five cities of the land of Sodom are a figurative representation of the five outward senses which exist in us, the organs of the pleasures, by the instrumentality of which all the pleasures whether great or small are brought to perfection;

Notes on the current edition

De Abrahamo

1.
1 δ’ BEK ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν BE, ἐπὶ τῆ χώρα Κ, τῆς χώρας Arm 1.
2 ὑπολείπεται BEK: ὑπολέλειπται ceteri
2 τῶν ὁμόρων BEK τῶν ὁμοίων Arm): om. ceteri ἡ om. BE
3 μὲν ΒEΚΗ2: om. ceteri
4 θείᾳ om. C δικασθεῖσα CFG
5 κενὰς Α, κοινὰς CBE ταῦτα BEK: ταυτὶ ceteri
8 φασιν KUP ἐλθεῖν ἐπ’ ὀλέθρω BEK Arm: ἐπ’ ὀλέθρω ἐλθεῖν ceteri
9 ὃς κατά γε BEK: ὅς γε κατὰ ceteri ἦν om. C ἁρμόττον post ἦν transp. BE ἁρμόττων Α
10 ὑπέλαβεν CG, ὑπελάμβανεν F παρὼν ΒΕΚ παριὼν Arm): om. ceteri αὐτοῦ F1HP, ἑαυτοῦ F2: αὐτοῦ ceteri 10.
11 μόναις δ’ ἐπιτρέπειν ταῖς δυνάμεσι καθυπηρεσίαν τὰ ἐναντία χειρουργεῖν C: μ. δ’ ἑ. τ. δ. καθ’ ὑπ’. τῶν δυνάμεων τὰ ἐναντία χειρουργεῖν FCMAHP, μ. δ’ ἑ. τ. δ. κ. ὒ. τῶν χειρουργεῖν δυναμένων τὰ ἐναντία Κ, τὰ δ’ ἐναντία καθ’ ὑπηρεσίαν τῶν δυνάμεων χειρουργεῖν BE, τὰ δ’ ἐναντία καθ’ ὑπηρεσίαν ταῖς δυνάμεσι μόναις ἐπιτρέπειν χειρουργεῖν Arm
12 μόνον BE αἰτίας G δὲ BEKF2H2: om. ceteri προηγουμένου C
15 δυοῖν FHP
17 πέντε om. F Arm τέσσαρες BEK 17.
18 ἐμπίμπρασθαι Mang.
18 δ’ BEK pobt ἀπαθὴς add. καὶ H2(v) σῷος om. Arm χρῆν BE ἥδ’
19 τὴν om. F
21 εὐηργετεῖτο AFGK
23 αὕτη Κ

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 147

ed. Leopold Cohn

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