Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 183

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[183] ταῦτα μὲν εἰκότως ἄν τις τῆς εὐτολμίας θαυμάσειεν ἐκ πολλοῦ τοῦ περιόντος καταφρονητικῶς ἔχοντα θανάτου καὶ ὡς ἐπ’ ἀθανασίαν αὐτὸν ἱέμενα καὶ ἀπνευστὶ θέοντα· 34 τὸν δὲ τί προσῆκεν ἐπαινεῖν
ὡς ἐγχειρητὴν κεκαινουργημένης πράξεως, ἣν καὶ ἰδιῶται καὶ βασιλεῖς καὶ ὅλα ἔθνη δρῶσιν ἐν καιροῖς;

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.) — 183 focus

[183] One may well admire the exceeding courage of these women, who look thus contemptuously on death, and disdain it so exceedingly that they hasten and run impetuously towards it as if they were grasping immortality. 34 But why, say they, ought one to praise Abraham as the attempter of a wholly novel kind of conduct, when it is only what private men and kings, and even whole nations do at appropriate seasons?

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