Philo Judaeus De Abrahamo 218

ed. Leopold Cohn

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[218] μυρίοι μὲν οὖν εἰσιν ἀπὸ μυρίων ἀφορμῶν κατὰ παντοδαπὰς ἰδέας πραγμάτων συνιστάμενοι, δύο δ’ οἱ νυνὶ μέλλοντες ἐπικρίνεσθαι τρόποι, ὧν
ὁ μὲν πρεσβύτερος, ὁ δὲ νεώτερος, πρεσβύτερος μὲν ὁ τὰ πρῶτα καὶ ἡγεμονικὰ τῇ φύσει τιμῶν, νεώτερος δὲ ὁ τὰ ὑπήκοα καὶ ἐν ἐσχατιαῖς ἐξεταζόμενα.

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.) — 218 focus

[218] Now there is an infinite variety of dispositions which arise from different circumstances and opportunities in every kind of action and event; but in this instance, we must distinguish between two characters, one of which is the elder and the other the younger. Now the elder of the two is that disposition which honours those things which are by nature principal and dominant; the younger is that which regards the things which are subject to others, and which are considered in the lowest rank.

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