Philo Judaeus, De Abrahamo, ed. Leopold Cohn, 199

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[199] τί δὴ τῶν εἰρημένων πρὸς ἑτέρους κοινόν; τί δ’ οὐκ ἐξαίρετον καὶ παντὸς λόγου κρεῖττον; ὡς τόν γε μὴ
φύσει βάσκανον καὶ φιλοπόνηρον καταπλαγῆναι καὶ θαυμάσαι τῆς περιττῆς ἄγαν εὐσεβείας, οὐχ ἅπαντα ὅσα εἶπον ἀθρόα εἰς νοῦν βαλλόμενον, ἀλλὰ κἂν ἕν τι τῶν πάντων· ἱκανὴ γὰρ καὶ ἡ ἑνὸς φαντασία τύπῳ τινὶ βραχεῖ — βραχὺ δ’ οὐδὲν ἔργον σοφοῦ — μέγεθος ψυχῆς καὶ ὕψος ἐμφῆναι.

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.) — 199 focus

[199] Now of all the circumstances which we have enumerated what is there which others have in common with Abraham? What is there which is not peculiar to him, and excellent beyond all power of language to praise? So that every one who is not by nature envious and a lover of evil must be struck with amazement and admiration for his excessive piety, even if he should not call at once to mind all the particulars on which I have been dwelling, but only some one of the whole number; for the conception of any one of these particulars is sufficient by a brief and faint outline to display the greatness and loftiness of the father’s soul; though there is nothing petty in the action of the wise man.

Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 199

ed. Leopold Cohn

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