Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 176

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[176] καὶ ταῦθ’ ἅμα λέγων ᾗ τάχιστα τὸν υἱὸν
ἐξαρπάσας ἐπιτίθησι τῷ βωμῷ καὶ σπασάμενος τῇ δεξιᾷ τὸ ξίφος ἐπέφερεν ὡς ἀναιρήσων· φθάνει δ’ ὁ σωτὴρ θεὸς ἀπ’ ἀέρος φωνῇ μεσολαβήσας τὸ ἔργον, ᾗ προσέταττεν ἀνέχειν καὶ μὴ ψαῦσαι τοῦ παιδός, ὀνομαστὶ καλέσας δὶς τὸν πατέρα, ἵν’ ἐπιστρέψας καὶ ἀντισπάσας διακωλύσῃ

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.) — 176 focus

[176] And even while saying this, he seizes his son with all rapidity, and places him on the altar, and having taken his knife in his right hand, he raised it over him as if to slay him; but God the Saviour stopped the deed in the middle, interrupting him by a voice from heaven, by which he ordered him to stay his hand, and not to touch the child: calling the father by name twice, so as to turn him and divert him from his purpose, and forbid him to complete the sacrifice.

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