Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 171

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[171] τὸν δὲ προσταχθέντα χῶρον ὥσπερ ἀπὸ
σκοπιᾶς ἰδὼν ἐκ μακροῦ τοῖς μὲν θεράπουσι κελεύει καταμένειν, τῷ δὲ παιδὶ πῦρ καὶ ξύλα δίδωσι κομίζειν, αὐτὸ δικαιώσας τὸ ἱερεῖον τὰ πρὸς τὴν θυσίαν ἐπηχθίσθαι, κουφότατον βάρος· οὐδὲν γὰρ εὐσεβείας ἀπονώτερον.

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.) — 171 focus

[171] And when, looking as it were from a watch-tower, he saw the appointed place afar off, he bade his servants remain there, and he gave his son the fire and the wood to carry, thinking it proper for the victim himself to be burdened with the materials for the sacrifice, a very light burden, for nothing is less troublesome than piety.

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