Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 164

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[164] ταῦτα δὲ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀνάκειται τῷ φιλοσοφεῖν· ἐξ οὗ δῆλόν ἐστιν, ὅτι σοφία καὶ φιλοσοφία τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀπ’
οὐδενὸς εἴληφεν ἑτέρου τῶν ἐν ἡμῖν ἢ τῆς ἡγεμονίδος τῶν αἰσθήσεων ὁράσεως, ἣν καὶ μόνην ἐκ τῆς σωματικῆς χώρας διέσωσεν ὁ θεὸς τὰς ¹ τέσσαρας φθείρας, ὅτι αἱ μὲν σαρκὶ καὶ τοῖς σαρκὸς πάθεσιν ἐδούλευσαν, ἡ δὲ ἴσχυσεν ἀνατεῖναι τὸν αὐχένα καὶ βλέψαι καὶ p. 25 M. τέρψεις ἑτέρας ἀνευρεῖν πολὺ βελτίους τῶν σωματικῶν ἡδονῶν ἐκ τῆς περὶ τὸν κόσμον θεωρίας καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ.

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.) — 164 focus

[164] These, and similar subjects, belong to philosophers, from which it is plain that wisdom and philosophy have not derived their origin from anything else that exists in us except from that queen of the outward senses, the sight, which God saved alone of the region of the body when he destroyed the other four, because these last were slaves to the flesh and to the passions of the flesh; but the sight alone was able to raise its head and to look up, and to find other sources of delight far superior to those proceeding from the bodily pleasures, those, namely, that are derived from the contemplation of the world and the things in it.

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De Abrahamo

1.
1 φάτναις] φαντασίαις Arm τὸ σύμφυτον] ἀπὸ συμφύτων FG, ἀπὸ τῶν συμφύτων C ὦν ἡμῖν Κ θρέμμα] θρεμμάτων C, σῶμα BEK πιαινούσας CFG: πιαῖνον ceteri τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ora. F
2 τὴν λόγου om. Κ λόγω Α, τοῦ ὅλου BE τὴν τοῦ ὅλου μεταποιουμένην ἀρετὴν mg. Α ἀκοήν ΒΕΚ: ἀρετήν ceteri; αἴσθησιν coni. Mang. ἡ CAHP
3 βίαι H2(v)
4 συρμὸν] συριγμὸν Arm χαλεπὸν om. CFG ἐξηχῶσιν] ἐμποιοῦσιν BE δ’ BEK
5 γῆς] τῆς G ἐνακαρεὶ CFMHP, ἐνακαρὶ G φθάνωσιν Turn.
6 καὶ add. Arm: om. codd.
7 πρὸς τὸ BEK Arm: πρὸς τῶ ceteri ἐπὶ τὴν ἀφανεστάτην διάνοιαν CFG
8 ἐνδειξαμένη BE πάθος ΒΕΚΑ Arm: δέος ceteri; εἶδος coni. Μang. 8.
9 ἀκοίμητος καὶ ἀεικίνητος BEMF: ἀκοίμητος καὶ ἀκίνητος CGAK, ἀεικίνητος καὶ ἀκοίμητος HP, καὶ ἀεικίνητος om. Arm
9 τὰ νοηθέντα F, τῶν νοητῶν BE 9.
10 τὰς ἀφορμὰς λαβοῦσα Κ Arm: λαβοῦσα oin. BE, λαβοῦσα τὰς ἀφορμάς ceteri
10 σκῆψιν CFG
11 ἀγέννητα AKGHP ἔλαχεν K
12 πλείονες ὄις οἷ ΒΕΚ: πλείους ceteri τέσσαρα BEKP
14 τῆς ἄλλης Α, τῆς ἄλλης Κ οὐσίας om. Arm ἐπιλαχών H2
16 πράττει ISEK: πράσσει ceteri
17 τίς BEK: τίς ἐστιν ceteri νοῦς] βιοὺς F
19 σοφία om. Arm
20 εἴληφεν BEK: ἔλαβεν ceteri post ἢ add. ὅτι BE

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 164

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