Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 193

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[193] ἔπειτ’ οὐκ ὄντος ἔθους ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ, καθάπερ ἴσως παρ’ ἐνίοις ἐστίν, ἀνθρωποθυτεῖν, ὃ τῇ συνεχείᾳ τὰς τῶν δεινῶν
φαντασίας εἴωθεν ἐκλύειν, αὐτὸς ἔμελλε πρῶτος ἄρχεσθαι καινοτάτου καὶ παρηλλαγμένου πράγματος, ὅ μοι δοκεῖ μηδεὶς ἂν ὑπομεῖναι, καὶ εἰ σιδήρου τὴν ψυχὴν ἢ ἀδάμαντος κατεσκεύαστο· „φύσει“ γὰρ ὡς εἶπέ τις „ἔργον μάχεσθαι.“

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.) — 193 focus

[193] In the second place, though it was not the custom in the land in which he was living, as perhaps it is among some nations, to offer human sacrifices, and custom, by its frequency, often removes the horror felt at the first appearance of evils, he himself was about to be the first to set the example of a novel and most extraordinary deed, which I do not think that any human being would have brought himself to submit to, even if his soul had been made of iron or of adamant; for as some one has said, —

"’Tis a hard task with nature to contend."

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 193

ed. Leopold Cohn

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