Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 175

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[175] ὁ δ’ οὐδεμίαν ἐνδεξάμενος τροπὴν οὔτε κατὰ ¹² τὸ σῶμα οὔτε κατὰ τὴν διάνοιαν σταθερῷ μὲν τῷ βλέμματι σταθερῷ δὲ τῷ λογισμῷ φησι πρὸς τὴν πεῦσιν ἀποκρινόμενος· „ὦ τέκνον, ὁ θεὸς ὄψεται ἱερεῖον ἑαυτῷ καὶ ἐν ἐρημίᾳ πολλῇ, δι’ ἣν ἴσως ἀπογινώσκεις εὑρεθήσεσθαι· πάντα δ’ ἴσθι θεῷ δυνατὰ καὶ ὅσα ἐν ἀμηχάνῳ καὶ ἀπόρῳ κεῖται παρ’ ἀνθρώποις“.

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.) — 175 focus

[175] but Abraham, betraying no alteration of voice, or countenance, or intention, looking at his son with steady eye, answered his question with a determination more steady still, "My child," said he, "God will provide himself a victim for the burnt offering," although we are in a vast desert where perhaps you despair of such a thing being found; but all things are possible to God, even all such things as are impossible and unintelligible to men.

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De Abrahamo

1.
1 σφαγιάσαι] ἐναγίσαι F Κολοφωνίου BE πορρωτάτου Α
2 ὁδῶν F πόθω ἀλέκτῳ transp. HP
3 ἐγνάμφθη CFG: ἠγνάμφθη Α, ἐκνάμφθη BE, ἐκάμφθη MKHP(v)
4 δὲ ΒΕΚ ἀνενδοιάστῳ BEK διέμενεν HP ἀκλινής] ἀρρεπής Κ πρόσθεν ἢν] πρότερον Κ, πρότερος BE
5 δὲ BEKH-: om. ceteri post κράτος add. δ’ C, ὃς Arm
6 καὶ alt. om. BE τὸ λόγιον ἐξειπών transp. Κ
7 μόνους BEK: om. ceteri τέταρτος] tertius Ambros.
10 σκοπιῆς BEK θεραπεύουσι BEKAG κάτω καταμένειν Arm
11 δίδωσιν ἐπιφέρειν BEK δικαιώσας] δίκαιον νομίσας BEKMA ἱερὸν FGH1P
12 τὴν om. E ἐπηχθῆσθαι C, ἐπηχθεῖσθαι BE, ἐπειχθῆσθαι Α
13 δ’ ἰσοταχῶς M: δ’ ἴσοι ταχέως CFGHP, διό σοι ταχέως Α, διὸ ταχέως Arm, εἰς ὃ τάχος BE, οὑν ὡς τάχος Κ
14 ἧ C, καὶ ἧ FG τὸ om. CFG Arm
15 κἄπειθ’ BEK Arm: καὶ ceteri
16 δείμοιτο C, δειμαίνῃ FG, ἐπὶ τῶ δεῖμαι (pro ἴνα δείμαιτο) Α τὸν βωμὸν AFG δ’ BEK εἰς ὁρῶν post ἱερουργίαν transp. H(v)
17 πρὸς Κ
18 ἁ] ἂν G
19 κἂν] καὶ F
21 ἡσυχάζων post ὁ δ’ transp. BEK ἐνδεξάμενος BE: ἐνδειξάμενος ceteri (v)

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6 Ambros. De Abrah. 18,68 senex Abrabam et dives pecoris atque abundans servitiorum non quaesivit comitatus sui agmina: ipse quoque ligna concidit et obsequia maiora viribus suis non intermisit . . . et cum duobus ipse tertius proficiscitur hostiam suam ducens et die tertio ad locum sacrificii venit.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 175

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