Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 170

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[170] ὁ δὲ καίτοι ἀλέκτῳ πόθῳ τοῦ παιδὸς ἐκκρεμάμενος οὔτε τὴν χρόαν μετέβαλεν οὔτε τὴν ψυχὴν ἐγνάμφθη, γνώμῃ δ’ ἀνενδότῳ καὶ ἀρρεπεῖ διέμεινεν ἀκλινής, οἷος καὶ πρόσθεν ἦν·
ἔρωτι δὲ θείῳ δεδαμασμένος ἀνὰ κράτος ἐνίκα πάντα ὅσα συγγενείας ὀνόματα καὶ φίλτρα καὶ μηδενὶ τῶν ἔνδον ἐξειπὼν τὸ λόγιον, ἐκ πολυανθρώπου θεραπείας οἰκετῶν δύο μόνους τοὺς πρεσβυτάτους καὶ μάλιστα φιλοδεσπότους παραλαβών, ὡς ἕνεκά τινος ἱερουργίας τῶν ἐν ἔθει τέταρτος ἐξῄει σὺν τῷ παιδί.

De Abrahamo. Philo Judaeus. ed. Leopold Cohn. Germany. 2014.

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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.) — 170 focus

[170] And he, although attached to his child by an indescribable fondness, neither changed colour, nor wavered in his soul, but remained firm in an unyielding and unalterable purpose, as he was at first. And being wholly influenced by love towards God, he forcibly repressed all the names and charms of the natural relationship: and without mentioning the oracular command to any one of his household out of all his numerous body of servants, he took with him the two eldest, who were most thoroughly attached to their master, as if he were bent upon the celebration of some ordinary divine rite, and went forth with his son, making four in all.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 170

ed. Leopold Cohn

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